Extracting a Climate Signal from 169 Glacier Records
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23326439 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Oerlemans (0000-0001-5701-4161, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 5, 3584 CC Utrecht, Netherlands.), J J Oerlemans (0000-0002-7854-8047, Utrecht University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 308 |
| Issue | 5722 |
| Pages | 675-677 |
| Publication date | 2005-04-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-8075 • E-ISSN: 0193-4511 |
| Publisher | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1126/science.1107046 |
| PMID | 15746388 |
| OpenAlex | W2126147651 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 86 |
| References cited | 23 |
I constructed a temperature history for different parts of the world from 169 glacier length records. Using a first-order theory of glacier dynamics, I related changes in glacier length to changes in temperature. The derived temperature histories are fully independent of proxy and instrumental data used in earlier reconstructions. Moderate global warming started in the middle of the 19th century. The reconstructed warming in the first half of the 20th century is 0.5 kelvin. This warming was notably coherent over the globe. The warming signals from glaciers at low and high elevations appear to be very similar.
Climate change · Climatology · Geography · Glacier · Glacier mass balance · Global warming · Globe · Physical geography · Proxy (statistics) · Environmental Science · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Oceanography · Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics · Tree-ring climate responses
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| Citations per year | 4,1 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 68 |