Brief communication: Ad hoc estimation of glacier contributions to sea-level rise from the latest glaciological observations

Zemp, Michael; Huss, Matthias; Eckert, Nicolas; Thibert, Emmanuel; Paul, Frank; Nussbaumer, Samuel U.; Gärtner-Roer, Isabelle

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1043-2020

Articles | Volume 14, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1043-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1043-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 3

Brief communication

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20 Mar 2020

Brief communication |

| 20 Mar 2020

Brief communication: Ad hoc estimation of glacier contributions to sea-level rise from the latest glaciological observations

Michael Zemp, Matthias Huss, Nicolas Eckert, Emmanuel Thibert, Frank Paul, Samuel U. Nussbaumer, and Isabelle Gärtner-Roer

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RC1: 'Review of Zemp et al. (2019, TCD)', Anonymous Referee #1, 07 Oct 2019
- AC1: 'Author’s response related to the comments received to the discussion paper https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2019-180', Michael Zemp, 18 Dec 2019
RC2: 'Review of Ad hoc estimation of glacier contributions to SLR...', Anonymous Referee #2, 30 Oct 2019
- AC1: 'Author’s response related to the comments received to the discussion paper https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2019-180', Michael Zemp, 18 Dec 2019

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (22 Jan 2020) by Ruth Mottram

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ED: Publish as is (10 Feb 2020) by Ruth Mottram

AR by Michael Zemp on behalf of the Authors (11 Feb 2020)

Short summary

Comprehensive assessments of global glacier mass changes have been published at multi-annual intervals, typically in IPCC reports. For the years in between, we present an approach to infer timely but preliminary estimates of global-scale glacier mass changes from glaciological observations. These ad hoc estimates for 2017/18 indicate that annual glacier contributions to sea-level rise exceeded 1 mm sea-level equivalent, which corresponds to more than a quarter of the currently observed rise.