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The contribution of the Greenland ice sheet to sea-level rise will…increase over…200…years but…
http://www.ice2sea.eu/news/p2013_08/[font face=Serif][font size=4]Press Release: sensitivity of the Greenland Ice Sheet[/font]
Posted on July 10, 2013
[font size=5]The contribution of the Greenland ice sheet to sea-level rise will continue to increase over the next 200 years but the balance of processes that lead to ice loss will change significantly as outlet glaciers retreat, say researchers.[/font]
PR No. 08/2013
[font size=3]New research has shown surface ice melt will be the dominant process controlling ice-loss from Greenland. As outlet glaciers retreat inland the other process, iceberg production, remains important, but will not grow as rapidly.
The Greenland ice sheet is often considered an important potential contributor to future global sea-level rise over the next century or longer. In total, it contains an amount of ice that would lead to a rise of global sea level by more than seven metres, if completely melted.
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The ice loss from the ice sheet has been increasing over the last decade, with half of it attributed to changes in surface conditions with the remainder due to increased iceberg calving – the process by which ice detaches from the glacier to become an iceberg.
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They devised a method to generalize projections made in earlier research which concerned just four of Greenland’s outlet glaciers. By doing so they could apply the earlier findings to all calving glaciers around the Greenland ice sheet. Their results indicate a total sea-level contribution from the Greenland ice sheet for an average warming scenario after 100 and 200 years of 7 and 21 cm, respectively.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3189/2013JoG12J182Posted on July 10, 2013
[font size=5]The contribution of the Greenland ice sheet to sea-level rise will continue to increase over the next 200 years but the balance of processes that lead to ice loss will change significantly as outlet glaciers retreat, say researchers.[/font]
PR No. 08/2013
[font size=3]New research has shown surface ice melt will be the dominant process controlling ice-loss from Greenland. As outlet glaciers retreat inland the other process, iceberg production, remains important, but will not grow as rapidly.
The Greenland ice sheet is often considered an important potential contributor to future global sea-level rise over the next century or longer. In total, it contains an amount of ice that would lead to a rise of global sea level by more than seven metres, if completely melted.
…
The ice loss from the ice sheet has been increasing over the last decade, with half of it attributed to changes in surface conditions with the remainder due to increased iceberg calving – the process by which ice detaches from the glacier to become an iceberg.
…
They devised a method to generalize projections made in earlier research which concerned just four of Greenland’s outlet glaciers. By doing so they could apply the earlier findings to all calving glaciers around the Greenland ice sheet. Their results indicate a total sea-level contribution from the Greenland ice sheet for an average warming scenario after 100 and 200 years of 7 and 21 cm, respectively.
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