Ice-sheet mass balance and climate change

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Title:: Ice-sheet mass balance and climate change
Series Title:: Nature Volume 498
Creator:: Hanna, Edward
Navarro, Francisco, J.
Pattyn, Frank
Domingues, Catia M.
Fettweis, Xavier
Ivins, Erik R.
Nicholls, Robert J.
Ritz, Catherine
Smith, Ben
Tulaczyk, Slawek
Whitehouse, Pippa L.
Zwally, H. Jay
Publisher:: Macmillan Publishers Limited
Publication Date:: 2013-06-06
Language:: English

Subjects / Keywords:: Climate Change ( lcsh )
Ice Sheets ( lcsh )
Greenland ( lcsh )

Abstract:: Since the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report, new observations of ice-sheet mass balance and improved computer simulations of ice-sheet response to continuing climate change have been published. Whereas Greenland is losing ice mass at an increasing pace, current Antarctic ice loss is likely to be less than some recently published estimates. It remains unclear whether East Antarctica has been gaining or losing ice mass over the past 20 years, and uncertainties in ice-mass change for West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula remain large. We discuss the past six years of progress and examine the key problems that remain. ( English )

Source Institution:: Florida International University
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