A Reconciled Estimate of Glacier Contributions to Sea Level Rise: 2003 to 2009

Author:

Gardner Alex S.12,Moholdt Geir3,Cogley J. Graham4,Wouters Bert56,Arendt Anthony A.7,Wahr John58,Berthier Etienne9,Hock Regine710,Pfeffer W. Tad11,Kaser Georg12,Ligtenberg Stefan R. M.13,Bolch Tobias1415,Sharp Martin J.16,Hagen Jon Ove17,van den Broeke Michiel R.13,Paul Frank14

Affiliation:

1. Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610, USA.

2. Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

3. Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.

4. Department of Geography, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario K9J 7B8, Canada.

5. Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.

6. Bristol Glaciology Centre, School of Geographical Science, Bristol BS8 1SS, UK.

7. Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA.

8. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.

9. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Toulouse, LEGOS, 14 Avenue E. Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France.

10. Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, SE-751 05 Uppsala, Sweden.

11. Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.

12. Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics, Universität Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.

13. Utrecht University, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, 3508 TA Utrecht, Netherlands.

14. Department of Geography, University of Zurich, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland.

15. Institut für Kartographie, Technische Universität Dresden, D-01062 Dresden, Germany.

16. Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E3, Canada.

17. Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Box 1047 Blindern, N-0316, Oslo, Norway.

Abstract

Melting Away We assume the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets are the main drivers of global sea-level rise, but how large is the contribution from other sources of glacial ice? Gardner et al. (p. 852 ) synthesize data from glacialogical inventories to find that glaciers in the Arctic, Canada, Alaska, coastal Greenland, the southern Andes, and high-mountain Asia contribute approximately as much melt water as the ice sheets themselves: 260 billion tons per year between 2003 and 2009, accounting for about 30% of the observed sea-level rise during that period.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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