Dixon Glacier Model Workbench

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Scenario
Projections Explorer

Dixon runoff to 2100

Scrub the scenario (top bar), warming transmission, thickness track, and climate model to see the ensemble runoff and when peak water lands. Uncertainty is the paired-posterior 5–95% band across draws — never a bare median.

Thickness track
Warming transmission
Climate model (GCM)

Warming transmission — how strongly the projected air-temperature warming reaches the glacier surface. Full applies the CMIP6 warming directly; Damped attenuates it (on-glacier boundary-layer effects resist warming). Which holds is genuinely uncertain, so both are run — it shifts peak-water timing by about 9 years.

Runoff to 2100 · SSP2-4.5
This study — 5–95%Rounce 2023 — IQR (q25–q75)
Raw daily hydrology · SSP2-4.5

The model’s output at its native daily resolution — fixed-gauge runoff split into ice-melt, snow-melt, and rain, with the daily temperature and precipitation that drive it stacked underneath. Drag the window on the track below to slide a few months at a time across the whole 2000–2100 run. This is one central (posterior-median) trajectory; the 5–95% band is on the annual fan above.

Peak-water year · SSP2-4.5
Independent check · Rounce et al. 2023
Glacier geometry to 2100 · SSP2-4.5
Uncertainty decomposition · what moves peak water

Emissions scenario dominates peak-water timing — a 43-year span of median peak years from SSP1-2.6 to SSP5-8.5. Warming transmission moves it ~9 years; the thickness track barely a couple. The dual-track thickness disagreement — the single biggest structural uncertainty in the model, carried as two parallel ice-volume tracks the whole way through — turns out not to matter for when peak water lands. The bed governs post-peak longevity, not the peak year — a robustness win.

A global finding across all 56 runs — it doesn't change with the selectors above.