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Tag Archives: West Antarctica

Understanding Sea Level Rise 6: SLR benefits of keeping warming below 1.5 degrees (IPCC & Pattyn)

Posted on May 5, 2019 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

If you do one about agriculture, you gotta do one for your sea level rise series too, we heard you say.

Posted in Bits of Climate | Tagged 1.5 degrees, 2 degrees, Antarctica, Greenland, ice sheets, IPCC, IPCC SR15, Nature Climate Change, sea level rise, sea level rise feedbacks, tipping points, Understanding Sea Level Rise, Université libre de Bruxelles, West Antarctica

Isostatic rebound Amundsen Bay: a negative feedback that acts on West Antarctic grounding line retreat

Posted on August 26, 2018 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

In our series ‘Understanding Sea Level Rise’ we’ve paid ample attention to positive melting feedbacks, mechanisms that accelerate ice melt and ice sheet dynamics as global temperatures keep rising. Now of course there are also negative feedbacks, like local relative … Continue reading →

Posted in Bits of Climate, Bits of Geoscience | Tagged Amundsen Bay, Antarctica, climate feedbacks, ice melting, ice sheet dynamics, ice shelves, isostatic rebound, Nature, negative melting feedback, Pine Island Glacier, Science, sea level rise, Technical University of Denmark, Twaites Glacier, Understanding Sea Level Rise, University of Washington, Valentina Barletta, West Antarctica
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