The Earth's cryosphere and sea level change

Foreword Introduction Climate change challenges Section I: Long-term variation of the Earth's cryosphere Climates of the Earth and cryosphere evolution Section II: Observational studies on land ices Overview and assessment of Antarctic ice-sheet mass balance estimates: 1992 - 2009 Present day regional mass loss of Greenland observed with satellite gravimetry Interaction between the warm subsurface Atlantic water in the Sermilik Fjord and Helheim glacier in southeast Greenland Section III: The dynamics of land ices Response of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to multi-millennial greenhouse warming in the Earth system model of intermediate complexity LOVECLIM Representing grounding line dynamics in numerical ice sheet models. Recent advances and outlook Understanding and modelling rapid dynamic changes of tidewater outlet glaciers: issues and implications Section IV: Modelling of the mass balance of the land ices Large-scale surface mass balance of ice sheets from a comprehensive atmospheric model Precipitation changes in high southern latitudes from global reanalyses: A cautionary tale Ice sheets and sea level: thinking outside the box A downscaling approach towards high-resolution surface mass balance over Antarctica Section V: Glacier observation and modelling Estimating the glacier contribution to sea-level rise for the period 1800-2005 Observed mass balance of mountain glaciers and Greenland ice sheet in the 20th century and the present trends Present state and prospects of ice sheet and glacier modeling Section VI: Sea level and geodynamic effects Sea-level rise from the late 19th to the early 21st century Evidence for century-timescale acceleration in mean sea levels and for recent changes in extreme sea levels Response of a coupled ocean-atmosphere model to Greenland ice melting GOCE, satellite gravimetry and Antarctic mass transports