Melting of Arctic glaciers and ice caps and its impact on sea level

Martin J. Sharp; G.J. Wolken; B. Wouters

doi:10.5281/zenodo.4497683

Melting of Arctic glaciers and ice caps and its impact on sea level

Martin J. Sharp, G.J. Wolken, B. Wouters

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Abstract

Arctic glaciers occur in areas with maritime (southern Alaska, Iceland, Svalbard, and Scandinavia), continental (interior Alaska/Yukon), and Polar Desert (Arctic Canada, Arctic Russia) climates. They form where snow accumulates faster than atmospheric heat can melt it. This balance between accumulation and melt is called “surface mass balance”. Where a glacier ends in the ocean, ocean heat may melt the submerged part of a terminal ice cliff, or the underside of a floating ice tongue. Melt of all of the glacier ice in the Arctic would raise global mean sea level by 0.41 m. Complete melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet would add another 7.2 m

Original language	English
Title of host publication	INTERACT Stories of Arctic Science II
Editors	T.V. Callaghan, H. Savela, M. Johansson
Publisher	Aarhus University
Pages	98-99
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Print)	978-87-93129-17-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4497683
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 2021
Externally published	Yes

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