A high-end sea level rise probabilistic projection including rapid Antarctic ice sheet mass loss
A high-end sea level rise probabilistic projection including rapid Antarctic ice sheet mass loss
The potential for break-up of Antarctic ice shelves by hydrofracturing and following ice cliff instability might be important for future ice dynamics. One recent study suggests that the Antarctic ice sheet could lose a lot more mass during the 21st century than previously thought. This increased mass-loss is found to strongly depend on the emission scenario and thereby on global temperature change. We investigate the impact of this new information on high-end global sea level rise projections by developing a probabilistic process-based method. It is shown that uncertainties in the projections increase when including the temperature dependence of Antarctic mass loss and the uncertainty in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) model ensemble. Including these new uncertainties we provide probability density functions for the high-end distribution of total global mean sea level in 2100 conditional on emission scenario. These projections provide a probabilistic context to previous extreme sea level scenarios developed for adaptation purposes.
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Le Bars, Dewi
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Drijfhout, Sybren
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de Vries, Hylke
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Le Bars, Dewi
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Drijfhout, Sybren
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de Vries, Hylke
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Le Bars, Dewi, Drijfhout, Sybren and de Vries, Hylke
(2017)
A high-end sea level rise probabilistic projection including rapid Antarctic ice sheet mass loss.
Environmental Research Letters, 12 (4), , [044013].
(doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aa6512).
Abstract
The potential for break-up of Antarctic ice shelves by hydrofracturing and following ice cliff instability might be important for future ice dynamics. One recent study suggests that the Antarctic ice sheet could lose a lot more mass during the 21st century than previously thought. This increased mass-loss is found to strongly depend on the emission scenario and thereby on global temperature change. We investigate the impact of this new information on high-end global sea level rise projections by developing a probabilistic process-based method. It is shown that uncertainties in the projections increase when including the temperature dependence of Antarctic mass loss and the uncertainty in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) model ensemble. Including these new uncertainties we provide probability density functions for the high-end distribution of total global mean sea level in 2100 conditional on emission scenario. These projections provide a probabilistic context to previous extreme sea level scenarios developed for adaptation purposes.
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Accepted/In Press date: 7 March 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 3 April 2017
Published date: 3 April 2017
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Paleooceanography & Palaeoclimate
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Local EPrints ID: 407462
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/407462
ISSN: 1748-9326
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