Global glacier volume projections under high-end climate change scenarios

• Main Authors: Shannon, Sarah, Smith, Robin, Wiltshire, Andy, Payne, Tony, Huss, Matthias, Betts, Richard, Caesar, John, Koutroulis, Aris, Jones, Darren, Harrison, Stephan
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; Arctic; Canada; Jules; New Zealand; The Antarctic; albedo; Antarc*; Climate change; glacier; glacier*; glaciers; Global warming; Ice Sheet; Iceland; Alaska
• Online Access: http://doc.rero.ch/record/324110/files/hus_ggv.pdf

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...