Cryospheric contributions to sea-level rise and variability

• Main Authors: Steffen, K., Thomas, R. H., Rignot, E., Cogley, J. G., Dyurgerov, M. B., Raper, S. C. B., Huybrechts, P., Hanna, Edward
• Other Authors: Church, John A., Woodworth, Philip L., Aarup, Thorkild, Wilson, W. Stanley
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2010
• Subjects: F850 Environmental Sciences; Greenland; Willis; Meier; Lombard; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/26044/; https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444323276.ch7

Global mean sea level rose by ~1.8 mm/yr over the last 50 years, increasing to ~3.1 mm/yr during the 1990s (Church et al, 2004, Holgate and Woodworth, 2004, Cazenave and Nerem, 2004). Thermal expansion of ocean water is estimated to account for 0.4 mm/yr of sea level rise (SLR) for the past 4-5 deca...