Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss during past warm periods
Warming climate, melting ice, rising seas We know that the sea level will rise as climate warms. Nevertheless, accurate projections of how much sea-level rise will occur are difficult to make based solely on modern observations. Determining how ice sheets and sea level have varied in past warm perio...
Published in: | Science |
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Language: | English |
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2015
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa4019 https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.aaa4019 |
Summary: | Warming climate, melting ice, rising seas We know that the sea level will rise as climate warms. Nevertheless, accurate projections of how much sea-level rise will occur are difficult to make based solely on modern observations. Determining how ice sheets and sea level have varied in past warm periods can help us better understand how sensitive ice sheets are to higher temperatures. Dutton et al. review recent interdisciplinary progress in understanding this issue, based on data from four different warm intervals over the past 3 million years. Their synthesis provides a clear picture of the progress we have made and the hurdles that still exist. Science , this issue 10.1126/science.aaa4019 |
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