A global overview of glacier advances and retreats (grouped by regions and by millennia)
for the Holocene is compiled from previous studies. The reconstructions of glacier …

We present the first area-average time series reconstructions of warmest month, coldest
month and mean annual surface air temperatures across Europe during the last 12,000 …

The evidence for the Little Ice Age, the most important fluctuation in global climate in
historical times, is most dramatically represented by the advance of mountain glaciers in the …

On the basis of glacier and lake-level records, this paper attempts, for the first time, a
comparison between high-resolution palaeohydrological and palaeoglaciological data in …

In the Alps, climatic conditions reflected in glacier and rock glacier activity in the earliest
Holocene show a strong affinity to conditions in the latest Pleistocene (Younger Dryas) …

Cycles of glaciation impose mechanical stresses on underlying bedrock as glaciers
advance, erode, and retreat. Fracture initiation and propagation constitute rock mass …

We review the scientific efforts over the last decades to reconstruct erosion from continuous
alpine lake sediment records. We focused both on methodological issues, showing the …

Subfossil remains of wood and peat from six Swiss glaciers found in proglacial fluvial
sediments indicate that glaciers were smaller than the 1985 reference level and climatic …

Abstract A June–August Alpine temperature proxy series is developed back to AD 951 using
1,527 ring-width measurements from living trees and relict wood. The reconstruction is …

A likely consequence of global warming will be the redistribution of Earth's rain belts,
affecting water availability for many of Earth's inhabitants. We consider three ways in which …