Foreword: International Space Science Institute (ISSI)
Workshop on the Earth's Cryosphere and Sea Level Change
Lennart Bengtsson ............................................... 1
INTRODUCTION
Climate Change Challenges
Hartmut Grassl .................................................. 5
SECTION I: LONG-TERM VARIATION OF THE EARTH'S CRYOSPHERE
Climates of the Earth and Cryosphere Evolution
Gilles Ramstein ................................................ 15
SECTION II: OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES ON LAND ICE
Overview and Assessment of Antarctic Ice-Sheet Mass Balance
Estimates: 1992-2009
H. Jay Zwally and Mario B. Giovinetto .......................... 37
Present Day Regional Mass Loss of Greenland Observed with
Satellite Gravimetry
E. Schrama, B. Wouters and B. Vermeersen ....................... 63
Interaction Between the Warm Subsurface Atlantic Water in
the Sermilik Fjord and Helheim Glacier in Southeast
Greenland
Ola M. Johannessen, Alexander Korablev, Victoria Miles,
Martin W. Miles and Knut E. Solberg ............................ 73
SECTION III: THE DYNAMICS OF LAND ICE
Response of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets to
Multi-Millennial Greenhouse Warming in the Earth System
Model of Intermediate Complexity LOVECLIM
P. Huybrechts, H. Goelzer, I. Janssens, E. Driesschaert,
T. Fichefet, H. Goosse and M.-F. Loutre ........................ 83
Representing Grounding Line Dynamics in Numerical Ice Sheet
Models: Recent Advances and Outlook
David Docquier, Laura Perichon and Frank Pattyn ............... 103
Understanding and Modelling Rapid Dynamic Changes of
Tidewater Outlet Glaciers: Issues and Implications
Andreas Vieli and Faezeh M. Nick .............................. 123
SECTION IV: MODELLING OF THE MASS BALANCE OF THE LAND ICE
Large-Scale Surface Mass Balance of Ice Sheets from
a Comprehensive Atmospheric Model
Lennart Bengtsson, Symeon Koumoutsaris and Kevin Hodges ....... 145
Precipitation Changes in High Southern Latitudes from Global
Reanalyses: A Cautionary Tale
Mien P. Nicolas and David H. Bromwich ......................... 161
Ice Sheets and Sea Level: Thinking Outside the Box
Michiel R. Van den Broeke, Jonathan Bamber, Jan Lenaerts and
Eric Rignot ................................................... 181
A Downscaling Approach Toward High-Resolution Surface Mass
Balance Over Antarctica
Hubert Gallée, Cécile Agosta, Luc Gential, Vincent Favier
and Gerhard Krinner ........................................... 193
SECTION V: GLACIER OBSERVATION AND MODELLING
Estimating the Glacier Contribution to Sea-Level Rise for
the Period 1800-2005
P.W. Leclercq, J. Oerlemans and J.G. Cogley ................... 205
Observed Mass Balance of Mountain Glaciers and Greenland Ice
Sheet in the 20th Century and the Present Trends
Atsumu Ohmura ................................................. 223
Present State and Prospects of Ice Sheet and Glacier
Modelling
Heinz Blatter, Ralf Greve and Ayako Abe-Ouchi .................
SECTION VI: SEA LEVEL AND GEODYNAMIC EFFECTS
Sea-Level Rise from the Late 19th to the Early 21st Century
John A. Church and Neil J. White .............................. 271
Evidence for Century-Timescale Acceleration in Mean Sea
Levels and for Recent Changes in Extreme Sea Levels
Philip L. Woodworth, Melisa Menendez and W. Roland Gehrels .... 289
Erratum ....................................................... 305
Response of a Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model to Greenland
Ice Melting
D. Stammer, N. Agarwal, P. Herrmann, A. Kohl and
C.R. Mechoso .................................................. 307
GOCE, Satellite Gravimetry and Antarctic Mass Transports
Reiner Rummel, Martin Horwath, Weiyong Yi, Alberta
Albertella, Wolfgang Bosch and Roger Haagmans ................. 329
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