Combustion of available fossil fuel resources sufficient to eliminate the Antarctic Ice Sheet
The Antarctic Ice Sheet stores water equivalent to 58 m in global sea-level rise. We show in simulations using the Parallel Ice Sheet Model that burning the currently attainable fossil fuel resources is sufficient to eliminate the ice sheet. With cumulative fossil fuel emissions of 10,000 gigatonnes...
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fttibhannoverren:oai:oa.tib.eu:123456789/9991 2023-05-15T13:53:55+02:00 Combustion of available fossil fuel resources sufficient to eliminate the Antarctic Ice Sheet Winkelmann, Ricarda Levermann, Anders Ridgwell, Andy Caldeira, Ken 2015 application/pdf https://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/9991 https://doi.org/10.34657/9029 eng eng Washington, DC [u.a.] : Assoc. ESSN:2375-2548 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500589 https://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/9991 http://dx.doi.org/10.34657/9029 CC BY-NC 4.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ frei zugänglich CC-BY-NC Science Advances 1 (2015), Nr. 8 Climate change Sea-level rise Antarctica Carbon emissions ddc:500 status-type:publishedVersion doc-type:article doc-type:Text 2015 fttibhannoverren https://doi.org/10.34657/9029 https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500589 2022-08-29T16:17:54Z The Antarctic Ice Sheet stores water equivalent to 58 m in global sea-level rise. We show in simulations using the Parallel Ice Sheet Model that burning the currently attainable fossil fuel resources is sufficient to eliminate the ice sheet. With cumulative fossil fuel emissions of 10,000 gigatonnes of carbon (GtC), Antarctica is projected to become almost ice-free with an average contribution to sea-level rise exceeding 3 m per century during the first millennium. Consistent with recent observations and simulations, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet becomes unstable with 600 to 800 GtC of additional carbon emissions. Beyond this additional carbon release, the destabilization of ice basins in both West and East Antarctica results in a threshold increase in global sea level. Unabated carbon emissions thus threaten the Antarctic Ice Sheet in its entirety with associated sea-level rise that far exceeds that of all other possible sources. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica East Antarctica Ice Sheet Renate - Repositorium für Naturwissenschaften und Technik (TIB Hannover) Antarctic East Antarctica The Antarctic West Antarctic Ice Sheet |
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The Antarctic Ice Sheet stores water equivalent to 58 m in global sea-level rise. We show in simulations using the Parallel Ice Sheet Model that burning the currently attainable fossil fuel resources is sufficient to eliminate the ice sheet. With cumulative fossil fuel emissions of 10,000 gigatonnes of carbon (GtC), Antarctica is projected to become almost ice-free with an average contribution to sea-level rise exceeding 3 m per century during the first millennium. Consistent with recent observations and simulations, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet becomes unstable with 600 to 800 GtC of additional carbon emissions. Beyond this additional carbon release, the destabilization of ice basins in both West and East Antarctica results in a threshold increase in global sea level. Unabated carbon emissions thus threaten the Antarctic Ice Sheet in its entirety with associated sea-level rise that far exceeds that of all other possible sources. |
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Combustion of available fossil fuel resources sufficient to eliminate the Antarctic Ice Sheet |
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Combustion of available fossil fuel resources sufficient to eliminate the Antarctic Ice Sheet |
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Combustion of available fossil fuel resources sufficient to eliminate the Antarctic Ice Sheet |
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Combustion of available fossil fuel resources sufficient to eliminate the Antarctic Ice Sheet |
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Combustion of available fossil fuel resources sufficient to eliminate the Antarctic Ice Sheet |
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combustion of available fossil fuel resources sufficient to eliminate the antarctic ice sheet |
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