The dynamic response of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to multiple-century climatic warming
New calculations were performed to investigate the combined response of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to a range of climatic warming scenariosover the next millennium. Use was made of fully dynamic 3-D thermomechanic ice sheet models which were coupled to a two dimensional climate model.The...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:1477 2023-09-05T13:13:08+02:00 The dynamic response of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to multiple-century climatic warming Huybrechts, Philippe Wolde, J. de 1999 application/pdf https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/1477/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/1477/1/Huy1999a.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.12068 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.12068.d001 unknown https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/1477/1/Huy1999a.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.12068.d001 Huybrechts, P. and Wolde, J. d. (1999) The dynamic response of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to multiple-century climatic warming , Journal of Climate, 12 (8), pp. 2169-2188 . hdl:10013/epic.12068 EPIC3Journal of Climate, 12(8), pp. 2169-2188 Article isiRev 1999 ftawi 2023-08-22T19:42:40Z New calculations were performed to investigate the combined response of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to a range of climatic warming scenariosover the next millennium. Use was made of fully dynamic 3-D thermomechanic ice sheet models which were coupled to a two dimensional climate model.The experiments were initialized with simulations over the last two glacial cycles to estimate the present evolution, and subsequently forced with temperaturescenarios resulting from greenhouse emission scenarios which assume equivalent CO2 increases of 2x, 4x, and 8x the pre-industrial value by the year 2130AD, and a stabilization after that. The calculations brought to light that during the next century (short-term effect), the background evolution trend woulddominate the response of the Antarctic ice sheet, but would be negligible for the Greenland ice sheet. On that time scale, the Greenland and Antarctic icesheets would roughly balance one another for the middle scenario (similar to the IPCC96 IS92a scenario), with respective contributions to the world-wide sea-level stand of the order of about ± 10 cm. On the longer term, however, both ice sheets would contribute positively to the worldwide sea-level stand and themost important effect would be from melting on the Greenland ice sheet. Sensitivity experiments highlighted the role of ice dynamics and the height/mass-balance feedback on the results. It was found that ice dynamics cannot be neglected for the Greenland ice sheet, not even on a century time scale, butbecomes only important for Antarctica on the longer term. The latter is related to an increased outflow of ice into the ice shelves and to grounding-line retreatof the West Antarctic ice sheet, which are both found to be sensitive to basal melting below ice shelves and the effective viscosity of the ice shelves.Stretching parameters to their limits yielded a combined maximum rate of sea-level rise of 85 cm/ century, of which 60 cm would originate from theGreenland ice sheet alone. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Greenland Ice Sheet Ice Shelves Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) Antarctic Greenland The Antarctic West Antarctic Ice Sheet |
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New calculations were performed to investigate the combined response of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to a range of climatic warming scenariosover the next millennium. Use was made of fully dynamic 3-D thermomechanic ice sheet models which were coupled to a two dimensional climate model.The experiments were initialized with simulations over the last two glacial cycles to estimate the present evolution, and subsequently forced with temperaturescenarios resulting from greenhouse emission scenarios which assume equivalent CO2 increases of 2x, 4x, and 8x the pre-industrial value by the year 2130AD, and a stabilization after that. The calculations brought to light that during the next century (short-term effect), the background evolution trend woulddominate the response of the Antarctic ice sheet, but would be negligible for the Greenland ice sheet. On that time scale, the Greenland and Antarctic icesheets would roughly balance one another for the middle scenario (similar to the IPCC96 IS92a scenario), with respective contributions to the world-wide sea-level stand of the order of about ± 10 cm. On the longer term, however, both ice sheets would contribute positively to the worldwide sea-level stand and themost important effect would be from melting on the Greenland ice sheet. Sensitivity experiments highlighted the role of ice dynamics and the height/mass-balance feedback on the results. It was found that ice dynamics cannot be neglected for the Greenland ice sheet, not even on a century time scale, butbecomes only important for Antarctica on the longer term. The latter is related to an increased outflow of ice into the ice shelves and to grounding-line retreatof the West Antarctic ice sheet, which are both found to be sensitive to basal melting below ice shelves and the effective viscosity of the ice shelves.Stretching parameters to their limits yielded a combined maximum rate of sea-level rise of 85 cm/ century, of which 60 cm would originate from theGreenland ice sheet alone. |
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The dynamic response of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to multiple-century climatic warming |
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The dynamic response of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to multiple-century climatic warming |
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The dynamic response of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to multiple-century climatic warming |
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The dynamic response of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to multiple-century climatic warming |
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The dynamic response of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to multiple-century climatic warming |
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dynamic response of the greenland and antarctic ice sheets to multiple-century climatic warming |
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https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/1477/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/1477/1/Huy1999a.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.12068 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.12068.d001 |
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https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/1477/1/Huy1999a.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.12068.d001 Huybrechts, P. and Wolde, J. d. (1999) The dynamic response of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to multiple-century climatic warming , Journal of Climate, 12 (8), pp. 2169-2188 . hdl:10013/epic.12068 |
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