Low sea level rise projections from mountain glaciers and icecaps under global warming

Sarah C. B. Raper () and Roger J. Braithwaite
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Sarah C. B. Raper: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Roger J. Braithwaite: University of Manchester

Nature, 2006, vol. 439, issue 7074, 311-313

Abstract: Low tide The prospect that melting of the polar icecaps and mountain glaciers could cause a global rise in sea level in the event of global warming is always in the news. Yet the predictions based on the commonly used climate scenarios still involve a great deal of uncertainty. New estimates reduce this uncertainty by taking better account of the shrinkage in glacier area than previous methods. A key result is that the projected sea level rise by 2100 due to water from melting ice caps and mountain glaciers is about half the previous estimate.

Date: 2006
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