Die Massenbilanzen des antarktischen und grönländischen Inlandeises und der Charakter ihrer Veränderungen

• Main Authors: Mayer, Christoph, Oerter, Hans
• Other Authors: Lozan, José L., Grassl, Hartmut, Notz, D., Piepenburg, D.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Wiss. Auswertungen 2014
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Dy; Greenland; The Antarctic; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Antarctica; Antarktis*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/35623/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/35623/1/mayer2014book.pdf; http://www.warnsignale.uni-hamburg.de/?page_id=310; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.43571; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.43571.d001

Mass balance of the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland and their changes: The freshwater resources of the two ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland represent a potential rise of the global sea level of 70 m. So far it was assumed that for a moderate rise in global temperature the enhanced ice melt in Greenland will be compensated by higher accumulation rates in the interior of Antarctica. Only a further increase in temperatures will lead to a noti- ceable contribution to sea level from the polar ice sheet. A number of recent investigations demonstrate that the sen- sitivity of the ice sheets to temperature changes is much higher. Not only higher melt rates, but also ice dynamic ef- fects will lead to the disappearance of the Greenland Ice Sheet if temperatures rise a further three degrees. But also in Antarctica some areas, especially the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and the glaciers of the Antarctic Peninsula, alrea- dy react very sensitive on the ongoing climatic change which leads to a positive contribution to global sea level.