Antarctic Ice Sheet and emission scenario controls on 21st-century extreme sea-level changes

There are significant uncertainties of how large sea level changes due to Antarctic Ice Sheet melting could be. Here, the authors quantify the impact of different greenhouse gas emission scenarios and different Antarctic contributions to changes to extreme sea-level events and find that even under l...

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Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: Thomas Frederikse, Maya K. Buchanan, Erwin Lambert, Robert E. Kopp, Michael Oppenheimer, D. J. Rasmussen, Roderik S. W. van de Wal
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020
Subjects:
Science
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Antarctic
Antarc*
Ice Sheet
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14049-6
https://doaj.org/article/ffc04314a3074b549febd93240e1dea8
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Summary:There are significant uncertainties of how large sea level changes due to Antarctic Ice Sheet melting could be. Here, the authors quantify the impact of different greenhouse gas emission scenarios and different Antarctic contributions to changes to extreme sea-level events and find that even under low emissions the occurrence of sea-level extremes could rise significantly due to Antarctic meltwater increase.

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