ABSTRACT
Records of Holocene glacier fluctuations contribute important information about the range of natural climate variability and rates of climate change. Fluctuations in the equilibrium-line altitude (ELA) or snowline, variations in glacier mass balance and frontal fluctuations are important indicators of glacier response to climate change which may allow reconstructions of both past, present and future climate change. Glaciers, glacial landforms and proglacial lacustrine sediments are well-suited archives to record past climate change, as demonstrated through the history of glacier fluctuations obtained from different regions of the world. Based on an exponential relationship between winter accumulation and ablation-season temperature at the ELA of Norwegian glaciers, mean winter precipitation can be quantified by combining reconstructed ELA variations and mean ablation-season temperature reconstructed from independent biological proxies.
