Sentences with phrase «icesheet change»
WRT our current discussion of ice sheet dynamics, the latest IPCC report actually has * less * to offer in terms of icesheet change predictions precisely because there have been so many new findings and such dramatic changes in just the last few years.
http://illconsidered.blogspot.ru/ Not exact matches
Perhaps you might want to read that paper as well as «Climate Change and Trace Gases», available in many places, which argues for an albedo flip mechanism and (relatively) short timescales for icesheet response to forcing, based on paleo data.
That makes it somewhat easier to estimate changes in Greenland and Antarctic icesheets, but very much remains unknown even in this forced case.
Radiative perturbation from icesheet and changed sealevel is estimated -3.2 W / m2 (with higher uncertainties than GHG), Vegatation and aerosols estimated -1 W / m2.
These changes resulted in more sunlight on the N. hemisphere where the most extensive icesheets were.