Glaciers Dominate Eustatic Sea-Level Rise in the 21st Century
University of Alaska Fairbanks · Stockholm University · +2 more institutions
Abstract
Ice loss to the sea currently accounts for virtually all of the sea-level rise that is not attributable to ocean warming, and about 60% of the ice loss is from glaciers and ice caps rather than from the two ice sheets. The contribution of these smaller glaciers has accelerated over the past decade, in part due to marked thinning and retreat of marine-terminating glaciers associated with a dynamic instability that is generally not considered in mass-balance and climate modeling. This acceleration of glacier melt may cause 0.1 to 0.25 meter of additional sea-level rise by 2100.
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 38.03
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- 100%
- References
- 15
Authors
8- MFMark F. MeierCorresponding
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Stockholm University, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder
- MBMark B. Dyurgerov
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Stockholm University, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder
- UKU. K. Rick
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Stockholm University, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder
- SOS. O’Neel
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Stockholm University, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder
- WTW. T. Pfeffer
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Stockholm University, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder
Topics & keywords
- Glacier
- Sea level rise
- Geology
- Surge
- Future sea level
- Sea level
- Ice sheet
- Climate change
- Life below water