Global glacier mass changes and their contributions to sea-level rise from 1961 to 2016
International audience Glaciers distinct from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets cover an area of approximately 706,000 square kilometres globally(1), with an estimated total volume of 170,000 cubic kilometres, or 0.4 metres of potential sea-level-rise equivalent(2). Retreating and thinning glac...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-02121653v1 2023-05-15T13:37:28+02:00 Global glacier mass changes and their contributions to sea-level rise from 1961 to 2016 Zemp, M. Huss, M. Thibert, Emmanuel Eckert, Nicolas McNabb, R. Huber, J. Barandun, M. Machguth, H. Nussbaumer, S. Gärtner-Roer, I. Thomson, L. Paul, F. Maussion, F. Kutuzov, S. Cogley, J. Department of Geography Universität Zürich Zürich (UZH) Department of Geosciences Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Erosion torrentielle neige et avalanches (UR ETGR (ETNA)) Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA) The Njord Center Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Oslo University of Oslo (UiO)-University of Oslo (UiO) University of Fribourg Queen's University Kingston, Canada University of Innsbruck Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow (RAS) Peterborough Ontario 2019 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02121653 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1071-0 en eng HAL CCSD Nature Publishing Group info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1038/s41586-019-1071-0 hal-02121653 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02121653 doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1071-0 IRSTEA: PUB00064400 WOS: 000464950700054 ISSN: 0028-0836 EISSN: 1476-4679 Nature https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02121653 Nature, Nature Publishing Group, 2019, 568 (7752), pp.382-386. ⟨10.1038/s41586-019-1071-0⟩ [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes [SDU.STU.GL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean Atmosphere info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2019 ftccsdartic https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1071-0 2021-11-07T01:58:49Z International audience Glaciers distinct from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets cover an area of approximately 706,000 square kilometres globally(1), with an estimated total volume of 170,000 cubic kilometres, or 0.4 metres of potential sea-level-rise equivalent(2). Retreating and thinning glaciers are icons of climate change(3) and affect regional runoff(4) as well as global sea level(5,6). In past reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, estimates of changes in glacier mass were based on the multiplication of averaged or interpolated results from available observations of a few hundred glaciers by defined regional glacier areas(7-10). For data-scarce regions, these results had to be complemented with estimates based on satellite altimetry and gravimetry(11). These past approaches were challenged by the small number and heterogeneous spatiotemporal distribution of in situ measurement series and their often unknown ability to represent their respective mountain ranges, as well as by the spatial limitations of satellite altimetry (for which only point data are available) and gravimetry (with its coarse resolution). Here we use an extrapolation of glaciological and geodetic observations to show that glaciers contributed 27 +/- 22 millimetres to global mean sea-level rise from 1961 to 2016. Regional specific-mass-change rates for 2006-2016 range from -0.1 metres to -1.2 metres of water equivalent per year, resulting in a global sea-level contribution of 335 +/- 144 gigatonnes, or 0.92 +/- 0.39 millimetres, per year. Although statistical uncertainty ranges overlap, our conclusions suggest that glacier mass loss may be larger than previously reported(11.) The present glacier mass loss is equivalent to the sea-level contribution of the Greenland Ice Sheet(12), clearly exceeds the loss from the Antarctic Ice Sheet(13), and accounts for 25 to 30 per cent of the total observed sea-level rise(14). Present mass-loss rates indicate that glaciers could almost disappear in some mountain ranges in ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic glacier Greenland Ice Sheet Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Antarctic Greenland The Antarctic Nature 568 7752 382 386 |
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International audience Glaciers distinct from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets cover an area of approximately 706,000 square kilometres globally(1), with an estimated total volume of 170,000 cubic kilometres, or 0.4 metres of potential sea-level-rise equivalent(2). Retreating and thinning glaciers are icons of climate change(3) and affect regional runoff(4) as well as global sea level(5,6). In past reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, estimates of changes in glacier mass were based on the multiplication of averaged or interpolated results from available observations of a few hundred glaciers by defined regional glacier areas(7-10). For data-scarce regions, these results had to be complemented with estimates based on satellite altimetry and gravimetry(11). These past approaches were challenged by the small number and heterogeneous spatiotemporal distribution of in situ measurement series and their often unknown ability to represent their respective mountain ranges, as well as by the spatial limitations of satellite altimetry (for which only point data are available) and gravimetry (with its coarse resolution). Here we use an extrapolation of glaciological and geodetic observations to show that glaciers contributed 27 +/- 22 millimetres to global mean sea-level rise from 1961 to 2016. Regional specific-mass-change rates for 2006-2016 range from -0.1 metres to -1.2 metres of water equivalent per year, resulting in a global sea-level contribution of 335 +/- 144 gigatonnes, or 0.92 +/- 0.39 millimetres, per year. Although statistical uncertainty ranges overlap, our conclusions suggest that glacier mass loss may be larger than previously reported(11.) The present glacier mass loss is equivalent to the sea-level contribution of the Greenland Ice Sheet(12), clearly exceeds the loss from the Antarctic Ice Sheet(13), and accounts for 25 to 30 per cent of the total observed sea-level rise(14). Present mass-loss rates indicate that glaciers could almost disappear in some mountain ranges in ... |
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Department of Geography Universität Zürich Zürich (UZH) Department of Geosciences Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Erosion torrentielle neige et avalanches (UR ETGR (ETNA)) Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA) The Njord Center Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Oslo University of Oslo (UiO)-University of Oslo (UiO) University of Fribourg Queen's University Kingston, Canada University of Innsbruck Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow (RAS) Peterborough Ontario |
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Zemp, M. Huss, M. Thibert, Emmanuel Eckert, Nicolas McNabb, R. Huber, J. Barandun, M. Machguth, H. Nussbaumer, S. Gärtner-Roer, I. Thomson, L. Paul, F. Maussion, F. Kutuzov, S. Cogley, J. |
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Global glacier mass changes and their contributions to sea-level rise from 1961 to 2016 |
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Global glacier mass changes and their contributions to sea-level rise from 1961 to 2016 |
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Global glacier mass changes and their contributions to sea-level rise from 1961 to 2016 |
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