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
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: European Geosciences Union 2019
• Subjects: albedo; Antarc*; Antarctic; Climate change; glacier; glacier*; glaciers; Global warming; Greenland; Ice Sheet; Iceland; The Cryosphere; Alaska
• Online Access: https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/81242/; https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/81242/9/tc-13-325-2019.pdf; https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/81242/1/tc-2018-35.pdf

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