Little Ice Age glaciers

Reconstructed Little Ice Age glacier geometry across the Alps

Henz et al. (2025), The Cryosphere · Data




Glacier reconstruction: Henz et al. (2025), The Cryosphere; data on Zenodo (doi:10.5281/zenodo.17608701). LIA outlines: Reinthaler and Paul (2025). All under CC BY 4.0.

Glacier names: today's glaciers inside each LIA outline, from the Swiss Glacier Inventory 2016 (GLAMOS), OpenStreetMap (ODbL) and GLIMS.

Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation, project RECONCILE (200020_213077/1), granted to Guillaume Jouvet (University of Lausanne), Andreas Vieli and Samuel U. Nussbaumer (both University of Zurich).

Website: Andreas Henz, with help from Claude (Anthropic); adapted from Luis Q. Gentner's GLACE viewer.

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