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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1043-2020
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Brief communication
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20 Mar 2020
Brief communication |
| 20 Mar 2020
| 20 Mar 2020
Brief communication: Ad hoc estimation of glacier contributions to sea-level rise from the latest glaciological observations
Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, 8057,
Switzerland
Matthias Huss
Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW), ETH Zurich, Zurich, 8093, Switzerland
Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, 1700,
Switzerland
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Nicolas Eckert
Université Grenoble Alpes, INRAE, UR ETGR, Grenoble, 38402,
France
Emmanuel Thibert
Université Grenoble Alpes, INRAE, UR ETGR, Grenoble, 38402,
France
Frank Paul
Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, 8057,
Switzerland
Samuel U. Nussbaumer
Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, 8057,
Switzerland
Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, 1700,
Switzerland
Isabelle Gärtner-Roer
Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, 8057,
Switzerland
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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.
Comprehensive assessments of global glacier mass changes have been published at multi-annual...
