Sensitivity of glaciers and small ice caps to greenhouse warming
Oerlemans J and Foutin JP. 1992. Sensitivity of glaciers and small ice caps to greenhouse warming. Science. 258(5079):115-117
Recent field programs on glaciers have supplied information that makes simulation of glacier mass balance with meteorlogical models meaningful. An estimate of world-wide glacier sensitivity based on a modeling study of 12 selected glaciers situated in widely differing climatic regimes shows that for a uniform 1 K warming the area-weighted glacier mass balace will descrease by 0.40 meter per year. This corresponds to a sea-level rise of 0.58 millimeter per year, a value significantly less than earlier estimates.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Oerlemans, J.; Foutin, J
- Units
- CAKN
- Keywords
- Glaciers, greenhouse warming