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ReviewCurrent climate change reports2018

Rising Oceans Guaranteed: Arctic Land Ice Loss and Sea Level Rise.

Twila Moon, Andreas Ahlstrøm, Heiko Goelzer, William Lipscomb, Sophie Nowicki

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Review in Current climate change reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Twila Moon1National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), 449 UCB, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0449 USA.
Andreas Ahlstrøm2Department of Glaciology and Climate, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Heiko Goelzer3Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University, Princetonplein 5, 3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands.
William Lipscomb5National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO USA.
Sophie Nowicki6NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewThis paper reviews sea level contributions from land ice across the Arctic, including Greenland. We summarize ice loss measurement methods, ice loss mechanisms, and recent observations and projections, and highlight research advances over the last 3-5 years and remaining scientific challenges. RECENT

findingsMass loss across the Arctic began to accelerate during the late twentieth century, with projections of continued loss across all future greenhouse gas emission scenarios. Recent research has improved knowledge of ice hydrology and surface processes, influences of atmospheric and oceanic changes on land ice, and boundary conditions such as subglacial topography. New computer models can also more accurately simulate glacier and ice sheet evolution. SUMMARY: Rapid Arctic ice loss is underway, and future ice loss and sea level rise are guaranteed. Research continues to better understand and model physical processes and to improve projections of ice loss rates, especially after 2050.

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ArcticGlaciersGreenland Ice SheetIce capsRemote sensingSea level rise

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PMID30956936
PMCPMC6428231

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