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2-14: Sea-Level Rise
Short Summaries of Recent Research
Collapse of Antarctic Ice Sheet was
Accelerated by Global Warming
- Climate Change
Emigrants
- Thresholds, Reversibility, and
Hysteresis
- Ice-Loss from Antarctica Accelerates Sea-Level
Rise
- Antarctic Ice Accelerating Toward the
Sea
- Exhibit Shows Loss of Glaciers in Europe
- Vanishing of the Greenland Ice Sheet Due to
Global Warming Raises Sea Level by 20 Feet (7 Meters)
- Sea-Level Rise: Thermal Expansion vs. Melting
Glaciers
- Rising Tide Encroaches
on Coastal Areas
- Mountain Ecosystems Reveal High
Vulnerability to Climate Change
- Greenland Ice Sheet Meltdown
Underway.
- Saving Venice from Sea-Level Rise
Levels of
the Red Sea and Abrupt Climate Change
- Ice
Shelf Collapse Increases Glacier Flow
- Demise of Mountain Glaciers:
Burning the Library
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Accelerated warming observed in the South Polar region
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Alaska Glaciers Contributing to Sealevel Rise
Increased Freshwater in the Ross Sea
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Stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Global Warming Blamed for Increased Flooding
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Enhanced Warming at High Latitudes
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Global Ice Volume, Deep Ocean Temperatures, and Climate Surprises
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West Antarctic Ice Sheet has Collapsed in a Previous Warm Period.
- Antarctica and Greenland mass balance problem.
This exercise was created by Joe Smith,
a senior in Meteorology (Class of 1996). For additional information about this
exercise, email: sigep@iastate.edu.
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One Small Ice Shelf Dies, One Giant Iceberg Born.
British Antarctic Survey Press Release, February 1995.
Websites
Islands
Battle Rising Seas for Survival
- Arctic Rivers
'Flowing Faster'
- Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change
- Antarctic
Glaciers Melting Faster
- Melting Glaciers
Diminished Gulf Stream, Cooled Western Europe During Last Ice
Age
- The Melting Ice of Greenland
- Current
Rate of Sea-Level Change
- Ice shelves
breaking up due to decades of higher temperatures
- Sea level rise due to
global warming
- Thinning of the Artic
sea-ice
- Potential impact of sea-level rise:
Bangladesh
- Potential impact of sea-level rise:
Nile Delta
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Higher temperatures in Antarctica have let to disintegration of some ice
shelves, Chemical & Engineering News, November 27,
1995.
- Potential impact of sea-level rise:
Nile Delta (0.5
to 1.0 meters)
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Antarctic ice sheet movie.
- Antarctic Rivers of
Ice
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Potential Impacts of Sea-Level Rise on Populations and Agriculture
from the Sustainable Development Dept. (SD), Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- National Snow
and Ice Data Center
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Antarctic ice shelves breaking up due to decades of higher temperatures
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Ice-Core Evidence of Abrupt Climate Change, by Richard B. Alley
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