Short-and long-term variability of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets

E Hanna, D Topál, JE Box, S Buzzard… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
The variability of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets occurs on various timescales and is
important for projections of sea level rise; however, there are substantial uncertainties …

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets under 1.5 C global warming

F Pattyn, C Ritz, E Hanna, X Asay-Davis… - Nature climate …, 2018 - nature.com
Even if anthropogenic warming were constrained to less than 2° C above pre-industrial, the
Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets will continue to lose mass this century, with rates similar …

Polar regions

MP Meredith, M Sommerkorn… - The ocean and …, 2019 - research.monash.edu
This chapter assesses the state of physical, biological and social knowledge concerning the
Arctic and Antarctic ocean and cryosphere, how they are affected by climate change, and …

Critical slowing down suggests that the western Greenland Ice Sheet is close to a tip** point

N Boers, M Rypdal - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021 - pnas.org
The Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) is a potentially unstable component of the Earth system and
may exhibit a critical transition under ongoing global warming. Mass reductions of the GrIS …

Young people's burden: requirement of negative CO2 emissions

J Hansen, M Sato, P Kharecha… - Earth System …, 2017 - esd.copernicus.org
Global temperature is a fundamental climate metric highly correlated with sea level, which
implies that kee** shorelines near their present location requires kee** global …

[HTML][HTML] Unprecedented atmospheric conditions (1948–2019) drive the 2019 exceptional melting season over the Greenland ice sheet

M Tedesco, X Fettweis - The Cryosphere, 2020 - tc.copernicus.org
Understanding the role of atmospheric circulation anomalies on the surface mass balance of
the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) is fundamental for improving estimates of its current and …

Surface melt and runoff on Antarctic ice shelves at 1.5 C, 2 C, and 4 C of future warming

E Gilbert, C Kittel - Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The future surface mass balance (SMB) of Antarctic ice shelves has not been constrained
with models of sufficient resolution and complexity. Here, we force the high‐resolution …