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This book gives a comprehensive overview of our present understanding of the Earth's cryosphere, its changes and their consequences for mean sea level changes. Since the middle of the 19th century there has been an increase of sea level height by 20-25 cm. Some 8-10 cm of this is due to net losses from glaciers, the remainder being due to mass losses from land ice and thermal expansion of the oceans. The mean sea level rise is slowly accelerating; at present it is some 3 mm/year. Recent space observations made by the GRACE satellite combined with ocean temperature and volume measurements have enabled the separate contributions to sea level rise from melting ice and from thermal expansion to be better estimated. The estimation of mean sea level change is complicated by changes in land level due to tectonic effects and to ongoing changes following the latest major glaciation. The book gives an up-to-date survey of our present knowledge of this crucial subject.

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Author:   Lennart Bengtsson ,  Simeon Koumoutsaris ,  R.-M. Bonnet ,  Einar-Arne Herland
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2012 ed.
Volume:   40
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.539kg
ISBN:  

9789401781893

ISBN 10:   9401781893
Pages:   343
Publication Date:   25 June 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword Introduction Climate change challenges Section I: Long-term variation of the Earth’s cryosphere Climates of the Earth and cryosphere evolution Section II: Observational studies on land ices Overview and assessment of Antarctic ice-sheet mass balance estimates: 1992 - 2009 Present day regional mass loss of Greenland observed with satellite gravimetry Interaction between the warm subsurface Atlantic water in the Sermilik Fjord and Helheim glacier in southeast Greenland                        Section III: The dynamics of land ices Response of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to multi-millennial greenhouse warming in the Earth system model of intermediate complexity LOVECLIM Representing grounding line dynamics in numerical ice sheet models. Recent advances and outlook Understanding and modelling rapid dynamic changes of tidewater outlet glaciers: issues and implications Section IV: Modelling of the mass balance of the land ices Large-scale surface mass balance of ice sheets from a comprehensive atmospheric model Precipitation changes in high southern latitudes from global reanalyses: A cautionary tale Ice sheets and sea level: thinking outside the box A downscaling approach towards high-resolution surface mass balance over Antarctica Section V: Glacier observation and modelling Estimating the glacier contribution to sea-level rise for the period 1800-2005 Observed mass balance of mountain glaciers and Greenland ice sheet in the 20th century and the present trends Present state and prospects of ice sheet and glacier modeling Section VI: Sea level and geodynamic effects Sea-level rise from the late 19th to the early 21st century Evidence for century-timescale acceleration in mean sea levels and for recent changes in extreme sea levels Response of a coupled ocean-atmosphere model to Greenland ice melting GOCE, satellite gravimetry and Antarctic mass transports

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