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The Earth's cryosphere and sea level change / L. Bengtsson [and others], editors.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Space sciences series of ISSI ; v. 40.Dordrecht ; Springer, �2012New York : Springer, �2012Description: 343 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9789400720626
  • 9400720629
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 551.31 23
LOC classification:
  • QC880.4.C79 I58 2010
Contents:
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 ice -- 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 ice -- 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 ice -- 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 toward 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 modelling -- 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 -- Erratum -- Response of a coupled ocean-atmosphere model to Greenland ice melting -- GOCE, satellite gravimetry and Antarctic mass transports.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Mesa Lab QC880.4 .C79 .I58 2010 1 Available 50583020008037
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International Space Science Institute (ISSI) Workshop on the Earth's Cryosphere and Sea Level Change held Bern 22-26 March 2010.

"Previously published in Surveys in Geophysics, v. 32, issues 4-5, 2012."

Includes bibliographical references.

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 ice -- 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 ice -- 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 ice -- 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 toward 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 modelling -- 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 -- Erratum -- Response of a coupled ocean-atmosphere model to Greenland ice melting -- GOCE, satellite gravimetry and Antarctic mass transports.

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