Global glacier volume projections under high-end climate change scenarios

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Shannon, Sarah, Smith, Robin, Wiltshire, Andy, Payne, Tony, Huss, Matthias, Betts, Richard, Caesar, John, Koutroulis, Aris, Jones, Darren, Harrison, Stephan
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; Arctic; Canada; Greenland; Jules; New Zealand; Svalbard; The Antarctic; albedo; Antarc*; Climate change; glacier; glacier*; glaciers; Global warming; Ice Sheet; Iceland; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-325-2019; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/13/325/2019/

The Paris agreement aims to hold global warming to well below 2 ∘ C and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 ∘ C relative to the pre-industrial period. Recent estimates based on population growth and intended carbon emissions from participant countries suggest global warming may exceed this ambitiou...