Cenozoic deep - sea temperatures and
global ice volumes from Mg / Ca in benthic foraminiferal calcite
Lambeck, K., Rouby, H., Purcell, A., Sun, Y. & Sambridge, M. Sea level and
global ice volumes from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene.
Not exact matches
Abstract: Mid - to late - Holocene sea - level records
from low - latitude regions serve as an important baseline of natural variability in sea level and
global ice volume prior to the Anthropocene.
Worldwide, small
ice caps and glaciers have reacted particularly dynamically to worldwide increases in temperatures9 - 11, and it has been proposed that the
volume loss
from mountain glaciers and
ice caps like these is the main contributor to recent
global sea - level rise12.
On decadal and longer time scales,
global mean sea level change results
from two major processes, mostly related to recent climate change, that alter the
volume of water in the
global ocean: i) thermal expansion (Section 5.5.3), and ii) the exchange of water between oceans and other reservoirs (glaciers and
ice caps,
ice sheets, other land water reservoirs - including through anthropogenic change in land hydrology, and the atmosphere; Section 5.5.5).
For instance, here's the data for delta - oxygen - 18
from a stack of 57 ocean sediment cores, which is considered an excellent proxy for
global ice volume, known as the «LR04 stack» (
from Lisiecki, L.E., & Raymo, M.E. 2005.
Its estimated
ice volume and contribution to mean
global sea level reside well within their ranges of natural variability, and
from the current looks of things, they are not likely to depart
from those ranges any time soon.
The most valuable information on rates of SLR comes
from periods when
global ice volumes were similar to present.
From historic droughts around the world and in places like California, Syria, Brazil and Iran to inexorably increasing glacial melt; from an expanding blight of fish killing and water poisoning algae blooms in lakes, rivers and oceans to a growing rash of global record rainfall events; and from record Arctic sea ice volume losses approaching 80 percent at the end of the summer of 2012 to a rapidly thawing permafrost zone explosively emitting an ever - increasing amount of methane and CO2, it's already a disastrous train - wr
From historic droughts around the world and in places like California, Syria, Brazil and Iran to inexorably increasing glacial melt;
from an expanding blight of fish killing and water poisoning algae blooms in lakes, rivers and oceans to a growing rash of global record rainfall events; and from record Arctic sea ice volume losses approaching 80 percent at the end of the summer of 2012 to a rapidly thawing permafrost zone explosively emitting an ever - increasing amount of methane and CO2, it's already a disastrous train - wr
from an expanding blight of fish killing and water poisoning algae blooms in lakes, rivers and oceans to a growing rash of
global record rainfall events; and
from record Arctic sea ice volume losses approaching 80 percent at the end of the summer of 2012 to a rapidly thawing permafrost zone explosively emitting an ever - increasing amount of methane and CO2, it's already a disastrous train - wr
from record Arctic sea
ice volume losses approaching 80 percent at the end of the summer of 2012 to a rapidly thawing permafrost zone explosively emitting an ever - increasing amount of methane and CO2, it's already a disastrous train - wreck.
We use realistic estimates of mass redistribution
from ice mass loss and land water storage to quantify the resulting ocean bottom deformation and its effect on
global and regional ocean
volume change estimates.
Estimates of
ice volume in northern hemisphere permafrost range
from 1.1 to 3.7 x1013 m3 (Zhang et al., 1999), equivalent to 0.03 to 0.10 m of
global - average sea level.