Committed sea-level rise under the Paris Agreement and the legacy of delayed mitigation action

Rising seas are a legacy of present and future climate change. Here the authors show that under the Paris Agreement, emissions in the next decades have a strong influence on the amount of sea level rise in the centuries to come, with the uncertainty dominated by ice-sheet contributions.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: Matthias Mengel, Alexander Nauels, Joeri Rogelj, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018
Subjects:
Science
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Ice Sheet
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-02985-8
https://doaj.org/article/23ebfa0039754c96948720022ea425c8
Description
Summary:Rising seas are a legacy of present and future climate change. Here the authors show that under the Paris Agreement, emissions in the next decades have a strong influence on the amount of sea level rise in the centuries to come, with the uncertainty dominated by ice-sheet contributions.

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