Ice sheets: indicators and instruments of climate change
Ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are uniquely arresting and captivating features of the Earth’s natural environment. The hyperbole attached to their description, their sheer size and remoteness from the normal lives of most of us, guarantees their iconic status, but the emerging understanding...
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ftnerc:oai:nora.nerc.ac.uk:6232 2024-06-09T07:38:52+00:00 Ice sheets: indicators and instruments of climate change Vaughan, David Letcher, T 2009 text http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/6232/ https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/6232/1/Ch22_proofs.pdf en eng Elsevier https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/6232/1/Ch22_proofs.pdf Vaughan, David orcid:0000-0002-9065-0570 . 2009 Ice sheets: indicators and instruments of climate change. In: Letcher, T, (ed.) Climate Change. Oxford, Elsevier, 492pp. Glaciology Publication - Book Section NonPeerReviewed 2009 ftnerc 2024-05-15T08:52:26Z Ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are uniquely arresting and captivating features of the Earth’s natural environment. The hyperbole attached to their description, their sheer size and remoteness from the normal lives of most of us, guarantees their iconic status, but the emerging understanding that ice sheets contain a threat, which cannot be fully evaluated mean, that they have become a central issue in the climate change debate. However, while global climate has undoubtedly warmed during the recent past, and human activity has been a major factor in this change, the role of ice sheets as indicators of climate change and as influential components in the planets climate engine, is a complex one (Fig. 1). This chapter will discuss the position of the great ice sheets within the climate change debate, contrasting the differing risks posed to sea-level rise by the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets as likely contributors to future sea-level rise, and how they may differently influence the wider debate on limiting greenhouse-gas emissions. Book Part Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Greenland Natural Environment Research Council: NERC Open Research Archive Antarctic Greenland |
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Ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are uniquely arresting and captivating features of the Earth’s natural environment. The hyperbole attached to their description, their sheer size and remoteness from the normal lives of most of us, guarantees their iconic status, but the emerging understanding that ice sheets contain a threat, which cannot be fully evaluated mean, that they have become a central issue in the climate change debate. However, while global climate has undoubtedly warmed during the recent past, and human activity has been a major factor in this change, the role of ice sheets as indicators of climate change and as influential components in the planets climate engine, is a complex one (Fig. 1). This chapter will discuss the position of the great ice sheets within the climate change debate, contrasting the differing risks posed to sea-level rise by the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets as likely contributors to future sea-level rise, and how they may differently influence the wider debate on limiting greenhouse-gas emissions. |
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https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/6232/1/Ch22_proofs.pdf Vaughan, David orcid:0000-0002-9065-0570 . 2009 Ice sheets: indicators and instruments of climate change. In: Letcher, T, (ed.) Climate Change. Oxford, Elsevier, 492pp. |
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