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ICEland-1: a geochronological database for reconstructing Late Quaternary glacier, relative sea level, and paleoclimate patterns in Iceland
David J. Harning
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Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Áslaug Geirsdóttir
Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
John T. Andrews
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Aaron M. Barth
Department of Geology, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, USA
Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir
Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
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ICEland-1 is quality-controlled database for past glacier, relative sea level, and paleoclimate changes in Iceland. We highlight several avenues for future research to minimize existing spatiotemporal uncertainties and biases in the data. The implementation of ICEland-1 for local ice sheet model calibrations and data-model comparisons will improve our understanding of past and future changes of ice sheets in the North Atlantic and Antarctica.
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