Global glacier volume projections under high-end climate change scenarios

• Main Authors: Shannon, Sarah, Smith, Robin, Wiltshire, Andy, Payne, Tony, Huss, Matthias, id_orcid:0 000-0002-2377-6923, Betts, Richard, Caesar, John, Koutroulis, Aris, Jones, Darren, Harrison, Stephan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; Arctic; Canada; Jules; New Zealand; The Antarctic; albedo; Antarc*; Climate change; glacier; glacier*; glaciers; Global warming; Ice Sheet; Iceland; The Cryosphere; Alaska
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/324871; https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000324871

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 ambitious...