Icy landscapes of the past (CP/ESSD/ESurf/TC inter-journal SI)(CP/ESSD/ESurf/TC inter-journal SI)
Icy landscapes of the past (CP/ESSD/ESurf/TC inter-journal SI)(CP/ESSD/ESurf/TC inter-journal SI)
Editor(s): Irina Rogozhina, Arjen Stroeven, Achim Beylich, Lev Tarasov, Yusuke Suganuma, Nicole Schaffer, Matthias Prange, Atle Nesje, Ken Mankoff, Neil Glasser, and Pepijn Bakker Special issue jointly organized between Climate of the Past, Earth System Science Data, Earth Surface Dynamics, and The Cryosphere
Studies of ice extent, volume, and dynamics during former glaciations are important for understanding past climates and evolution of the Earth's surface, and they also provide analogies for present-day and future ice sheets and their subglacial environments. The special issue (SI) "Icy landscapes of the past" brings together contributions from four Copernicus journals (Climate of the Past, The Cryosphere, Earth Surface Dynamics, and Earth System Science Data), reflecting the interdisciplinarity across scientific communities working with former glaciations from the perspectives of palaeoclimatology, glacial geomorphology, Quaternary geology, and numerical modelling, among others. It provides a platform from which field-based reconstructions and model simulations can be compared and contrasted, teasing out complex couplings between the changing cryosphere-induced topographic, freshwater, and sea level forcings and climate states of both warmer and colder epochs of the past. Through this SI, we aim to piece together the growing knowledge about regional responses of different geographic regions to past climate changes to obtain a global picture, thereby fostering emerging collaborations between previously disconnected geoscientific disciplines. We welcome contributions that shed light on ancient and more recent glaciations on Earth and their interaction with other components of the Earth system.

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17 Nov 2023
Evidence of solid Earth influence on stability of the marine-terminating Puget Lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet
Marion McKenzie, Lauren E. Miller, Allison Lepp, and Regina DeWitt
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.169903694.47074489/v1,https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.169903694.47074489/v1, 2023
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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07 Nov 2023
Subglacial valleys preserved in the highlands of south and east Greenland record restricted ice extent during past warmer climates
Guy J. G. Paxman, Stewart S. R. Jamieson, Aisling M. Dolan, and Michael J. Bentley
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2502,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2502, 2023
Preprint under review for TC (discussion: open, 1 comment)
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02 Nov 2023
Extensive palaeo-surfaces beneath the Evans-Rutford region of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet control modern and past ice flow
Charlotte M. Carter, Michael J. Bentley, Stewart S. R. Jamieson, Guy J. G. Paxman, Tom A. Jordan, Julien A. Bodart, Neil Ross, and Felipe Napoleoni
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2433,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2433, 2023
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30 Oct 2023
In situ 10Be modeling and terrain analysis constrain subglacial quarrying and abrasion rates at Sermeq Kujalleq (Jakobshavn Isbræ), Greenland
Brandon L. Graham, Jason P. Briner, Nicolás E. Young, Allie Balter-Kennedy, Michele Koppes, Joerg M. Schaefer, Kristin Poinar, and Elizabeth K. Thomas
The Cryosphere, 17, 4535–4547, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4535-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4535-2023, 2023
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18 Oct 2023
The influence of glacial landscape evolution on Scandinavian Ice Sheet dynamics and dimensions
Gustav Jungdal-Olesen, Vivi Kathrine Pedersen, Jane Lund Andersen, and Andreas Born
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2207,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2207, 2023
Preprint under review for TC (discussion: final response, 3 comments)
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16 Oct 2023
Reorganisation of subglacial drainage processes during rapid melting of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet
Adam Jake Hepburn, Christine F. Dow, Antti Ojala, Joni Mäkinen, Elina Ahokangas, Jussi Hovikoski, Jukka-Pekka Palmu, and Kari Kajuutti
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2141,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2141, 2023
Preprint under review for TC (discussion: final response, 2 comments)
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20 Sep 2023
Antarctic Tipping points triggered by the mid-Pliocene warm climate
Javier Blasco, Ilaria Tabone, Daniel Moreno-Parada, Alexander Robinson, Jorge Alvarez-Solas, Frank Pattyn, and Marisa Montoya
Clim. Past Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2023-76,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2023-76, 2023
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: final response, 2 comments)
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04 Sep 2023
Alpine topography of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains, Antarctica, mapped from ice sheet surface morphology
Edmund J. Lea, Stewart S. R. Jamieson, and Michael J. Bentley
The Cryosphere Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2023-94,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2023-94, 2023
Revised manuscript under review for TC (discussion: final response, 6 comments)
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15 Aug 2023
Coevolving edge rounding and shape of glacial erratics; the case of Shap granite, UK
Paul Carling
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1621,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1621, 2023
Revised manuscript under review for ESurf (discussion: final response, 4 comments)
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31 Jul 2023
A Greenland-wide empirical reconstruction of paleo ice-sheet retreat informed by ice extent markers: PaleoGrIS version 1.0
Tancrède P. M. Leger, Christopher D. Clark, Carla Huynh, Sharman Jones, Jeremy C. Ely, Sarah L. Bradley, Christiaan Diemont, and Anna L. C. Hughes
Clim. Past Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2023-60,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2023-60, 2023
Revised manuscript under review for CP (discussion: final response, 7 comments)
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28 Jul 2023
The staggered retreat of grounded ice in Ross Sea, Antarctica since the LGM
Matthew A. Danielson and Philip J. Bart
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1397,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1397, 2023
Revised manuscript under review for TC (discussion: final response, 4 comments)
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25 Jul 2023
Evaluation of the role of the Baltic depression during deglaciation of the last Scandinavian Ice Sheet; a landform-driven investigation
Izabela Szuman, Jakub Z. Kalita, Christiaan R. Diemont, Stephen J. Livingstone, Chris D. Clark, and Martin Margold
The Cryosphere Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2023-107,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2023-107, 2023
Revised manuscript under review for TC (discussion: final response, 8 comments)
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04 Jul 2023
Glacial inception through rapid ice area increase driven by albedo and vegetation feedbacks
Matteo Willeit, Reinhard Calov, Stefanie Talento, Ralf Greve, Jorjo Bernales, Volker Klemann, Meike Bagge, and Andrey Ganopolski
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1462,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1462, 2023
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: final response, 4 comments)
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03 Jul 2023
Late Pleistocene glacial terminations accelerated by proglacial lakes
Meike Scherrenberg, Constantijn Berends, and Roderik van de Wal
Clim. Past Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2023-42,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2023-42, 2023
Revised manuscript under review for CP (discussion: final response, 6 comments)
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26 Jun 2023
Uncertainties originating from GCM downscaling and bias correction with application to the MIS-11c Greenland Ice Sheet
Brian R. Crow, Lev Tarasov, Michael Schulz, and Matthias Prange
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1367,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1367, 2023
Revised manuscript under review for CP (discussion: final response, 4 comments)
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16 Jun 2023
Climate and ice sheet dynamics in Patagonia during the Last Glacial Maximum
Andrés Castillo-Llarena, Franco Retamal-Ramírez, Jorge Bernales, Martín Jacques-Coper, and Irina Rogozhina
Clim. Past Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2023-47,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2023-47, 2023
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: final response, 4 comments)
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22 May 2023
Dynamical response of the southwestern Laurentide Ice Sheet to rapid Bølling-Allerød warming
Sophie L. Norris, Martin Margold, David J. A. Evans, Nigel Atkinson, and Duane G. Froese
The Cryosphere Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2023-73,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2023-73, 2023
Revised manuscript accepted for TC (discussion: closed, 4 comments)
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