New Estimation of the Post Little Ice Age Relative Sea Level Rise

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet and Sea Level Rise

Little Ice Age

Volume 1, The Earth system: physical and chemical dimensions of global environmental change, pp 504–509

New fears on sea-level rise

new cubs. Previous research has already shown that unstable ice can result in failures of on-ice denning attempts. Less ice than is suitable for denning apparently has led to an increased frequency of pregnant polar bears in this region choosing to den on land, " says Fischbach. Unlike other temperate and Arctic bear species that hibernate during winter months, polar bears remain active and sea...

SEA-LEVEL RISE. Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss during past warm periods.

Interdisciplinary studies of geologic archives have ushered in a new era of deciphering magnitudes, rates, and sources of sea-level rise from polar ice-sheet loss during past warm periods. Accounting for glacial isostatic processes helps to reconcile spatial variability in peak sea level during marine isotope stages 5e and 11, when the global mean reached 6 to 9 meters and 6 to 13 meters higher...

The Cryosphere Greenland ice sheet contribution to sea-level rise from a new-generation ice-sheet model

Over the last two decades, the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) has been losing mass at an increasing rate, enhancing its contribution to sea-level rise (SLR). The recent increases in ice loss appear to be due to changes in both the surface mass balance of the ice sheet and ice discharge (ice flux to the ocean). Rapid ice flow directly affects the discharge, but also alters ice-sheet geometry and so ...