Brief communication: Ad hoc estimation of glacier contributions to sea-level rise from the latest glaciological observations
- Zemp, Michael Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, 8057, Switzerland
- Huss, Matthias 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
- Eckert, Nicolas Université Grenoble Alpes, INRAE, UR ETGR, Grenoble, 38402, France
- Thibert, Emmanuel Université Grenoble Alpes, INRAE, UR ETGR, Grenoble, 38402, France
- Paul, Frank Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, 8057, Switzerland
- Nussbaumer, Samuel U. Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, 8057, Switzerland - Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, 1700, Switzerland
- Gärtner-Roer, Isabelle Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, 8057, Switzerland
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20.03.2020
Published in:
- The Cryosphere. - 2020, vol. 14, no. 3, p. 1043–1050
English
Comprehensive assessments of global glacier mass changes based on a variety of observations and prevailing methodologies have been published at multi-annual intervals. For the years in between, the glaciological method provides annual observations of specific mass changes but is suspected to not be representative at the regional to global scales due to uneven glacier distribution with respect to the full sample. Here, we present a simple approach to estimate and correct for this bias in the glaciological sample and, hence, to provide an ad hoc estimate of global glacier mass changes and corresponding sea-level equivalents for the latest years, i.e. about −300±250 Gt in 2016/17 and −500±200 Gt in 2017/18.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Géosciences
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Hydrology
- License
- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 328434
- DOI 10.5194/tc-14-1043-2020
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/308457
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