A new projection of sea level change in response to collapse of marine sectors of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
We present gravitationally self-consistent predictions of sea level change that would follow the disappearance of either the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) or marine sectors of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS). Our predictions are based on a state-of-the-art pseudo-spectral sea level algorithm t...
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ftnerc:oai:nora.nerc.ac.uk:13912 2023-05-15T13:45:11+02:00 A new projection of sea level change in response to collapse of marine sectors of the Antarctic Ice Sheet Gomez, Natalya Mitrovica, Jerry X. Tamisiea, Mark E. Clark, Peter U. 2010-02 http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/13912/ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04419.x/abstract unknown Wiley Gomez, Natalya; Mitrovica, Jerry X.; Tamisiea, Mark E.; Clark, Peter U. 2010 A new projection of sea level change in response to collapse of marine sectors of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Geophysical Journal International, 180 (2). 623-634. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04419.x <https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04419.x> Marine Sciences Publication - Article PeerReviewed 2010 ftnerc https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04419.x 2023-02-04T19:28:52Z We present gravitationally self-consistent predictions of sea level change that would follow the disappearance of either the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) or marine sectors of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS). Our predictions are based on a state-of-the-art pseudo-spectral sea level algorithm that incorporates deformational, gravitational and rotational effects on sea level, as well as the migration of shorelines due to both local sea-level variations and changes in the extent of marine-based ice cover. If we define the effective eustatic value (EEV) as the geographically uniform rise in sea level once all marine-based sectors have been filled with water, then we find that some locations can experience a sea level rise that is similar to 40 per cent higher than the EEV. This enhancement is due to the migration of water away from the zone of melting in response to the loss of gravitational attraction towards the ice sheet (load self-attraction), the expulsion of water from marine areas as these regions rebound due to the unloading, and the feedback into sea level of a contemporaneous perturbation in Earth rotation. In the WAIS case, this peak enhancement is twice the value predicted in a previous projection that did not include expulsion of water from exposed marine-sectors of the West Antarctic or rotational feedback. The peak enhancements occur over the coasts of the United States and in the Indian Ocean in the WAIS melt scenario, and over the south Atlantic and northwest Pacific in the EAIS scenario. We conclude that accurate projections of the sea level hazard associated with ongoing global warming should be based on a theory that includes the complete suite of physical processes described above Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Ice Sheet Natural Environment Research Council: NERC Open Research Archive Antarctic The Antarctic West Antarctic Ice Sheet East Antarctic Ice Sheet Pacific Indian Geophysical Journal International 180 2 623 634 |
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We present gravitationally self-consistent predictions of sea level change that would follow the disappearance of either the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) or marine sectors of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS). Our predictions are based on a state-of-the-art pseudo-spectral sea level algorithm that incorporates deformational, gravitational and rotational effects on sea level, as well as the migration of shorelines due to both local sea-level variations and changes in the extent of marine-based ice cover. If we define the effective eustatic value (EEV) as the geographically uniform rise in sea level once all marine-based sectors have been filled with water, then we find that some locations can experience a sea level rise that is similar to 40 per cent higher than the EEV. This enhancement is due to the migration of water away from the zone of melting in response to the loss of gravitational attraction towards the ice sheet (load self-attraction), the expulsion of water from marine areas as these regions rebound due to the unloading, and the feedback into sea level of a contemporaneous perturbation in Earth rotation. In the WAIS case, this peak enhancement is twice the value predicted in a previous projection that did not include expulsion of water from exposed marine-sectors of the West Antarctic or rotational feedback. The peak enhancements occur over the coasts of the United States and in the Indian Ocean in the WAIS melt scenario, and over the south Atlantic and northwest Pacific in the EAIS scenario. We conclude that accurate projections of the sea level hazard associated with ongoing global warming should be based on a theory that includes the complete suite of physical processes described above |
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A new projection of sea level change in response to collapse of marine sectors of the Antarctic Ice Sheet |
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A new projection of sea level change in response to collapse of marine sectors of the Antarctic Ice Sheet |
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A new projection of sea level change in response to collapse of marine sectors of the Antarctic Ice Sheet |
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A new projection of sea level change in response to collapse of marine sectors of the Antarctic Ice Sheet |
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A new projection of sea level change in response to collapse of marine sectors of the Antarctic Ice Sheet |
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new projection of sea level change in response to collapse of marine sectors of the antarctic ice sheet |
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Gomez, Natalya; Mitrovica, Jerry X.; Tamisiea, Mark E.; Clark, Peter U. 2010 A new projection of sea level change in response to collapse of marine sectors of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Geophysical Journal International, 180 (2). 623-634. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04419.x <https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04419.x> |
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