Brief communication: Ad hoc estimation of glacier contributions to sea-level rise from the latest glaciological observations-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Brief communication: Ad hoc estimation of glacier contributions to sea-level rise from the latest glaciological observations

Published:2020-03-20 Issue:3 Volume:14 Page:1043-1050
ISSN:1994-0424
Container-title:The Cryosphere
language:en
Short-container-title:The Cryosphere

Author:

Zemp Michael^ORCID,Huss Matthias^ORCID,Eckert Nicolas,Thibert Emmanuel^ORCID,Paul Frank,Nussbaumer Samuel U.^ORCID,Gärtner-Roer Isabelle

Abstract

Abstract. Comprehensive assessments of global glacier mass changes based on a variety of observations and prevailing methodologies have been published at multi-annual intervals. For the years in between, the glaciological method provides annual observations of specific mass changes but is suspected to not be representative at the regional to global scales due to uneven glacier distribution with respect to the full sample. Here, we present a simple approach to estimate and correct for this bias in the glaciological sample and, hence, to provide an ad hoc estimate of global glacier mass changes and corresponding sea-level equivalents for the latest years, i.e. about -300±250 Gt in 2016/17 and -500±200 Gt in 2017/18.

Funder

European Space Agency

Publisher

Copernicus GmbH

Subject

Earth-Surface Processes,Water Science and Technology

Link

https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/14/1043/2020/tc-14-1043-2020.pdf

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