Sea level rise can exacerbate flooding, shoreline erosion, and storm
Research supported by CPO’s Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP) and Climate Variability and Predictability (CVP) programs evaluated the influence of the feedback mechanism between sea-level fall and ice sheets on future AIS retreat on centennial and millennial timescales for different emission scenarios, using a coupled ice sheet-sea-level model. Previous research has shown that sea-level fall near a retreating marine ice sheet’s grounding line helps stabilize the ice sheet.
The study by Natalya Gomez (McGill University), David Pollard (Pennsylvania State University), and David Holland (New York University) showed that the combination of bedrock uplift and sea-surface fall associated with ice-sheet retreat significantly reduces AIS mass loss compared to a simulation without the feedback. This stabilization tended to be greatest for lower emission scenarios.
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