Glaciers and their contribution to sea level change
Increased melting of glaciers and ice caps, excluding Greenland and Antarctica, will probably represent the second largest contribution to global sea level rise by 2100. The temperature sensitivity of sea level rise depends upon the global distribution of glacier areas, the temperature sensitivity o...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:5451 2023-09-05T13:12:53+02:00 Glaciers and their contribution to sea level change Braithwaite, R. J. Raper, S. C. B. 2002 application/pdf https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/5451/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/5451/1/Bra2002a.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.16019 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.16019.d001 unknown https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/5451/1/Bra2002a.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.16019.d001 Braithwaite, R. J. and Raper, S. C. B. (2002) Glaciers and their contribution to sea level change , Physics and chemistry of the earth, 27 , pp. 1445-1454 . hdl:10013/epic.16019 EPIC3Physics and chemistry of the earth, 27, pp. 1445-1454 Article isiRev 2002 ftawi 2023-08-22T19:45:25Z Increased melting of glaciers and ice caps, excluding Greenland and Antarctica, will probably represent the second largest contribution to global sea level rise by 2100. The temperature sensitivity of sea level rise depends upon the global distribution of glacier areas, the temperature sensitivity of glacier mass balance in each region, the expected change of climate in each region, and changes in glacier geometry resulting from climate change. None of these are particularly well known at present. Improvements in global climate models should eventually give better information about expected climate changes in regions where glaciers occur but there is also much work for glaciologists. For example, glacier areas, altitudes, shape characteristics and mass balance sensitivity are still not known for many glacierized regions and ways must be found to fill gaps. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica glacier Greenland Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) Greenland |
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Increased melting of glaciers and ice caps, excluding Greenland and Antarctica, will probably represent the second largest contribution to global sea level rise by 2100. The temperature sensitivity of sea level rise depends upon the global distribution of glacier areas, the temperature sensitivity of glacier mass balance in each region, the expected change of climate in each region, and changes in glacier geometry resulting from climate change. None of these are particularly well known at present. Improvements in global climate models should eventually give better information about expected climate changes in regions where glaciers occur but there is also much work for glaciologists. For example, glacier areas, altitudes, shape characteristics and mass balance sensitivity are still not known for many glacierized regions and ways must be found to fill gaps. |
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https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/5451/1/Bra2002a.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.16019.d001 Braithwaite, R. J. and Raper, S. C. B. (2002) Glaciers and their contribution to sea level change , Physics and chemistry of the earth, 27 , pp. 1445-1454 . hdl:10013/epic.16019 |
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