Articles | Volume 17, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-2125-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-2125-2017
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04 Dec 2017
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Impact of asymmetric uncertainties in ice sheet dynamics on regional sea level projections

Renske C. de Winter, Thomas J. Reerink, Aimée B. A. Slangen, Hylke de Vries, Tamsin Edwards, and Roderik S. W. van de Wal

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SEAWISE data, Impact of asymmetric uncertainties in ice sheet dynamics on regional sea level projections Renske de Winter and Thomas Reerink https://dataverse.nl/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=hdl:10411/X8BTEB

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This paper provides a full range of possible future sea levels on a regional scale, since it includes extreme, but possible, contributions to sea level change from dynamical mass loss from the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets. In contrast to the symmetric distribution used in the IPCC report, it is found that an asymmetric distribution toward high sea level change values locally can increase the mean sea level by 1.8 m this century.
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