Historical glacier change on Svalbard predicts doubling of mass loss by 2100
Historical glacier change on Svalbard predicts doubling of mass loss by 2100
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斯瓦尔巴群岛历史上的冰川变化预测到 2100 年冰川质量损失将增加一倍
作者:
Emily C. Geyman;Ward J. J. van Pelt;A. Maloof;H. F. Aas;J. Kohler
The melting of glaciers and ice caps accounts for about one-third of current sea-level rise1–3, exceeding the mass loss from the more voluminous Greenland or Antarctic Ice Sheets3,4. The Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, which hosts spatial climate gradients that are larger than the expected temporal climate shifts over the next century5,6, is a natural laboratory to constrain the climate sensitivity of glaciers and predict their response to future warming. Here we link historical and modern glacier observations to predict that twenty-first century glacier thinning rates will more than double those from 1936 to 2010. Making use of an archive of historical aerial imagery7 from 1936 and 1938, we use structure-from-motion photogrammetry to reconstruct the three-dimensional geometry of 1,594 glaciers across Svalbard. We compare these reconstructions to modern ice elevation data to derive the spatial pattern of mass balance over a more than 70-year timespan, enabling us to see through the noise of annual and decadal variability to quantify how variables such as temperature and precipitation control ice loss. We find a robust temperature dependence of melt rates, whereby a 1 °C rise in mean summer temperature corresponds to a decrease in area-normalized mass balance of −0.28 m yr−1 of water equivalent. Finally, we design a space-for-time substitution8 to combine our historical glacier observations with climate projections and make first-order predictions of twenty-first century glacier change across Svalbard. Historical photographs, modern observations, and a simple space-for-time substitution approach predict that glacier mass loss from Svalbard is poised to double over the twenty-first century.
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影响因子:
2.9
作者:
Moeller,Marco;Kohler,Jack
通讯作者:
Kohler,Jack
影响因子:
5.2
作者:
J.J. Fürst;F. Navarro;F. Gillet-Chaulet;M. Huss;G. Moholdt;X. Fettweis;C. Lang;T. Seehaus;T.J. Benham;D.I. Benn;H. Björnsson;J.A. Dowdeswell;M. Grabiec;J. Kohler;I. Lavrentiev;K. Lindbäck;K. Melvold;R. Pettersson;D. Rippin
通讯作者:
D. Rippin
DOI:
10.5194/tc-11-2003-2017
发表时间:
2017-09
期刊:
The Cryosphere
影响因子:
--
作者:
J. Fürst;F. Gillet‐Chaulet;T. Benham;J. Dowdeswell;M. Grabiec;F. Navarro;R. Pettersson;G. Moholdt;C. Nuth;Björn-Lukas Saß;K. Aas;X. Fettweis;C. Lang;T. Seehaus;M. Braun
通讯作者:
J. Fürst;F. Gillet‐Chaulet;T. Benham;J. Dowdeswell;M. Grabiec;F. Navarro;R. Pettersson;G. Moholdt;C. Nuth;Björn-Lukas Saß;K. Aas;X. Fettweis;C. Lang;T. Seehaus;M. Braun
影响因子:
4.9
作者:
Beaulieu, Claudie;Killick, Rebecca
通讯作者:
Killick, Rebecca
影响因子:
3.4
作者:
Benn, D., I;Fowler, A. C.;Sevestre, H.
通讯作者:
Sevestre, H.