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Citation link: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/583

Publisher DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0093-1
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Limited influence of climate change mitigation on short-term glacier mass loss


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Authors: Marzeion, Ben  
Kaser, Georg  
Maussion, Fabien  
Champollion, Nicolas  
Abstract: 
Glacier mass loss is a key contributor to sea-level change slope instability in high-mountain regions and the changing seasonality and volume of river flow. Understanding the causes, mechanisms and time scales of glacier change is therefore paramount to identifying successful strategies for mitigation and adaptation. Here, we use temperature and precipitation fields from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 output to force a glacier evolution model, quantifying mass responses to future climatic change. We find that contemporary glacier mass is in disequilibrium with the current climate, and 36 ± 8% mass loss is already committed in response to past greenhouse gas emissions. Consequently, mitigating future emissions will have only very limited influence on glacier mass change in the twenty-first century. No significant differences between 1.5 and 2 K warming scenarios are detectable in the sea-level contribution of glaciers accumulated within the twenty-first century. In the long-term, however, mitigation will exert strong control, suggesting that ambitious measures are necessary for the long-term preservation of glaciers.
Keywords: climate change; glaciers; numerical modelling; sea-level change
Issue Date: 19-Mar-2018
Journal/Edited collection: Nature Climate Change 
Start page: 305
End page: 308
Band: 8
Type: Artikel/Aufsatz
DOI: 10.26092/elib/583
URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-elib47867
Institution: Universität Bremen 
Faculty: Fachbereich 08: Sozialwissenschaften (FB 08) 
Institute: Institut für Geographie 
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