The potential for sea level rise: New estimates from glacier and ice cap area and volume distributions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Raper, Sarah C B ^a   Braithwaite, Roger J ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ESTIMATION; GLACIERS; MELTING; SEA ICE; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

GLACIER SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; ICE CAPS; ICE SHEETS; LATITUDE LONGITUDE GRID;

SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGLACIATION; FUTURE PROSPECT; MELTWATER; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

EID: 20444462009     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021981     Document Type: Article

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