Ice-sheet mass balance: assessment, attribution and prognosis

ABSTRACT. Contrary to prior expectations that warming would cause mass addition averaged over the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and over the next century, the ice sheets appear to be losing mass, at least partly in response to recent warming. With warming projected for the future, additional ma...

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Main Authors: Richard B. Alley, Matthew K. Spencer, Sridhar Anandakrishnan
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2007
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.634.5297
http://www.igsoc.org/annals/46/a46a053.pdf
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Summary:ABSTRACT. Contrary to prior expectations that warming would cause mass addition averaged over the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and over the next century, the ice sheets appear to be losing mass, at least partly in response to recent warming. With warming projected for the future, additional mass loss appears more likely than not.