A New Model to Construct Ice Stream Surface Elevation Profiles and Calculate Contributions to Sea-Level Rise

• Main Author: Adachi, Yosuke
• Other Authors: Cuffey, Kurt
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2012
• Subjects: Geography; Geophysics; Climate change; flowline model; ice sheet; ice stream; mass balance; sea-level rise; Greenland; Jutulstraumen; Pine Island Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; glacier; Ice Sheet; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2qs1j7qr

Sea-level rise is a problem that affects regions worldwide - from the marshlands of the San Francisco Bay Area to the farmlands in coastal Bangladesh. Three-dimensional ice sheet models are the principle tools to evaluate mass loss from ice sheets that contribute to sea-level rise. We recognize that...