Climate Attribution

Ubiquitous Acceleration in Greenland Ice Sheet Calving From 1985 to 2022

January 2024
Chad A. Greene, Alex S. Gardner, Michael Wood, Joshua K. Cuzzone
Nature
This peer-reviewed study that, since 1985, the Greenland Ice Sheet has lost 5,091 ± 72 km2 of area, and that current consensus estimates of ice-sheet mass balance have underestimated recent mass loss from Greenland by as much as 20%.Read More →

Attributing long-term sea-level rise to Paris Agreement emission pledges

November 2019
Alexander Nauels, Johannes Gütschow, Matthias Mengel, Malte Meinshausen, Peter U. Clark, and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
PNAS
This study uses GMSLR modeling that can handle emission scenarios flexibly to establish the link between pledged NDC emissions and GMSLR until 2300, thus highlighting the longer-term climate change implications of current climate mitigation efforts.Read More →

Accelerating Changes in Ice Mass Within Greenland, and the Ice Sheet’s Sensitivity to Atmospheric Forcing

February 2019
Michael Bevis, Christopher Harig, Shfaqat A. Khan, Abel Brown, Frederik J. Simons, Michael Willis, Xavier Fettweis, Michiel R. van den Broeke, Finn Bo Madsen, Eric Kendrick, Dana J. Caccamise II, Tonie van Dam, Per Knudsen, Thomas Nylen
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
This study describes research in monitoring ice loss in Greenland due to oceanic and atmospheric forcings and predicts that continued atmospheric warming will lead to southwest Greenland becoming a major contributor to sea-level rise.Read More →