A Reconciled Estimate of Glacier Contributions to Sea Level Rise: 2003 to 2009

Melting Away We assume the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets are the main drivers of global sea-level rise, but how large is the contribution from other sources of glacial ice? Gardner et al. (p. 852 ) synthesize data from glacialogical inventories to find that glaciers in the Arctic, Canada, Alas...

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Published in:Science
Main Authors: Gardner, Alex S., Moholdt, Geir, Cogley, J. Graham, Wouters, Bert, Arendt, Anthony A., Wahr, John, Berthier, Etienne, Hock, Regine, Pfeffer, W. Tad, Kaser, Georg, Ligtenberg, Stefan R. M., Bolch, Tobias, Sharp, Martin J., Hagen, Jon Ove, van den Broeke, Michiel R., Paul, Frank
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2013
Subjects:
Arctic
Canada
Greenland
Gardner
Antarc*
Antarctica
glacier
glacier*
glaciers
Alaska
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1234532
https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.1234532
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Summary:Melting Away We assume the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets are the main drivers of global sea-level rise, but how large is the contribution from other sources of glacial ice? Gardner et al. (p. 852 ) synthesize data from glacialogical inventories to find that glaciers in the Arctic, Canada, Alaska, coastal Greenland, the southern Andes, and high-mountain Asia contribute approximately as much melt water as the ice sheets themselves: 260 billion tons per year between 2003 and 2009, accounting for about 30% of the observed sea-level rise during that period.

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