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The Earth's Cryosphere and Sea Level Change

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Editors:
  1. Lennart Bengtsson

    1. International Space Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland

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  2. Simeon Koumoutsaris

    1. International Space Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland

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  3. R.-M. Bonnet

    1. International Space Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland

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  4. Einar-Arne Herland

    1. ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy

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  5. Philippe Huybrechts

    1. Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium

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  6. Ola M. Johannessen

    1. Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Bergen, Norway

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  7. Glenn Milne

    1. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

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  8. Johannes Oerlemans

    1. Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Res, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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  9. Atsumu Ohmura

    1. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), Zurich, Switzerland

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  10. Gilles Ramstein

    1. Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

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  11. Philip Woodworth

    1. Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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  • Deals with perhaps the most important question facing humans: climate change
  • Authors are leading scientists in the fields
  • The text is mainly descriptive and may be readily understood by non-experts
  • Will contribute to our understanding of climate change; it will be of great value for the IPCC

Part of the book series: Space Sciences Series of ISSI (SSSI, volume 40)

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Keywords

  • Climate change
  • Cryosphere
  • Land ice
  • Mean sea level
  • hydrogeology
  • marine and freshwater sciences

About this book

This book gives a comprehensive overview of our present understanding of the Earth's cryosphere, its changes and their consequences for mean sea level changes. Since the middle of the 19th century there has been an increase of sea level height by 20-25 cm. Some 8-10 cm of this is due to net losses from glaciers, the remainder being due to mass losses from land ice and thermal expansion of the oceans. The mean sea level rise is slowly accelerating; at present it is some 3 mm/year. Recent space observations made by the GRACE satellite combined with ocean temperature and volume measurements have enabled the separate contributions to sea level rise from melting ice and from thermal expansion to be better estimated. The estimation of mean sea level change is complicated by changes in land level due to tectonic effects and to ongoing changes following the latest major glaciation. The book gives an up-to-date survey of our present knowledge of this crucial subject.

Editors and Affiliations

  • International Space Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland

    Lennart Bengtsson, Simeon Koumoutsaris, R.-M. Bonnet

  • ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy

    Einar-Arne Herland

  • Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium

    Philippe Huybrechts

  • Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Bergen, Norway

    Ola M. Johannessen

  • Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

    Glenn Milne

  • Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Res, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Johannes Oerlemans

  • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), Zurich, Switzerland

    Atsumu Ohmura

  • Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

    Gilles Ramstein

  • Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Philip Woodworth

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Earth's Cryosphere and Sea Level Change

  • Editors: Lennart Bengtsson, Simeon Koumoutsaris, R.-M. Bonnet, Einar-Arne Herland, Philippe Huybrechts, Ola M. Johannessen, Glenn Milne, Johannes Oerlemans, Atsumu Ohmura, Gilles Ramstein, … Philip Woodworth

  • Series Title: Space Sciences Series of ISSI

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2062-6Published: 31 October 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8189-3Published: 25 June 2014

  • Series ISSN: 1385-7525

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 343

  • Additional Information: Previously published in Surveys in Geophysics, Volume 32, Nos. 4-5, 2011

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