Frieler, K.; et al. (2016): Delaying future sea-level rise by storing water in Antarctica

Frieler, K.; Mengel, M.; Levermann, A. (2016): Delaying future sea-level rise by storing water in Antarctica. In Earth Syst. Dynam. 7 (1), pp. 203–210. DOI 10.5194/esd-7-203-2016.

In view of the potential implications for coastal populations and ecosystems worldwide, we investigate, from an ice-dynamic perspective, the possibility of delaying sea-level rise by pumping ocean water onto the surface of the Antarctic ice sheet. We find that due to wave propagation ice is discharged much faster back into the ocean than would be expected from a pure advection with surface velocities.

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