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Brief communication
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17 Dec 2021
Brief communication | Highlight paper |
| 17 Dec 2021
| 17 Dec 2021
Brief communication: A roadmap towards credible projections of ice sheet contribution to sea level
Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
Timothy C. Bartholomaus
Department of Earth and Spatial Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA
Douglas J. Brinkerhoff
Department of Computer Science, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
Martin Truffer
Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
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Short summary
Estimating how much ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica will contribute to sea level rise is of critical societal importance. However, our analysis shows that recent efforts are not trustworthy because the models fail at reproducing contemporary ice melt. Here we present a roadmap towards making more credible estimates of ice sheet melt.
Estimating how much ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica will contribute to sea level rise is...
