Anders Levermann's Research: Sea level changes

Sea level changes

Sea level change

Future sea-level commitment

For each degree of warming above pre-industrial, sea- level will rise by about 2.3m within a period of 2000 years (Levermann et al. (2013).

For projections of the 21st century we propose a linear response function R(t) = Γ⋅t^α with positive α for Antarctic ice discharge from surface warming & negative α for other contributions (Winkelmann & Levermann, 2012).

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Publications
A. Levermann, R. Winkelmann, S. Nowicki, J. Fastook, K. Frieler, R. Greve, H.H. Hellmer, M.A. Martin, M. Meinshausen, M. Mengel, A.J. Payne, D. Pollard, T. Sato, R. Timmermann, W.L. Wang, R.A. Bindschadler Projecting Antarctic ice discharge using response functions from SeaRISE ice-sheet models Earth System Dynamics, 5 (2014), 271-293, DOI:10.5194/esd-5-271-2014. entry - entry Data download: All data (8Mb) - Ascii time series (80Kb) - Readme M. Mengel & A. Levermann Ice plug prevents irreversible discharge from East Antarctica Nature Climate Change 4 (2014), doi 10.1038/nclimate2226. » Highlighted in Nature 509 (2014), 136, doi:10.1038/509136c. entry B. Marzeion & A. Levermann Loss of Cultural World Heritage and currently inhabited places to sea-level rise Environmental Research Letters 9 (2014), 034001. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/9/3/034001. » Supplementary information entry - entry J.A. Church, P.U. Clark, A. Cazenave, J.M. Gregory, S. Jevrejeva, A. Levermann, M.A. Merrifield, G.A. Milne, R.S. Nerem, P.D. Nunn, A.J. Payne, W.T. Pfeffer, D. Stammer, A.S. Unnikrishnan Letter to the Editor: Sea-Level Rise by 2100 Science 342 (2013), 1445, doi: 10.1126/science.342.6165.1445-a. entry - entry A. Levermann, P.U. Clark, B. Marzeion, G. Milne, D. Pollard, V. Radic, A. Robinson The multi-millennial sea-level commitment of global warming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2013), published in early edition online. » Commentary by B. Strauss in PNAS entry - entry A. Levermann, R. Winkelmann, S. Nowicki, J. Fastook, K. Frieler, R. Greve, H.H. Hellmer, M.A. Martin, M. Mengel, A.J. Payne, D. Pollard, T. Sato, R. Timmermann, W.L. Wang, R.A. Bindschadler Projecting Antarctic ice discharge using response functions from SeaRISE ice-sheet models Earth System Dynamics Discussions 4 (2013), 1117-1168, doi:10.5194/esdd-4-1117-2013. entry - entry R. Winkelmann, A. Levermann, K. Frieler, M.A. Martin Increased future ice discharge from Antarctica owing to higher snowfall Nature 492 (2012), 239-242. » Supplementary information entry - entry S. Nowicki, R.A. Bindschadler, A. Abe-Ouchi, A. Aschwanden, E. Bueler, H. Choi, J. Fastook, G. Granzow, R. Greve, G. Gutowski, U. Herzfeld, C. Jackson, J. Johnson,C. Khroulev, E. Larour, A. Levermann, W.H. Lipscomb, M.A. Martin, M. Morlighem, B. Parizek, D. Pollard, S.F. Price, D. Ren, E. Rignot, F. Saito, T. Sato, H. Seddik, H. Seroussi, K. Takahashi, R. Walker, W.L. Wang Insights into spatial sensitivities of ice mass response to environmental change from the SeaRISE ice sheet modeling project II: Greenland Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 118 (2013), 1025-1044, doi:10.1002/jgrf.20076. entry - entry S. Nowicki, R.A. Bindschadler, A. Abe-Ouchi, A. Aschwanden, E. Bueler, H. Choi, J. Fastook, G. Granzow, R. Greve, G. Gutowski, U. Herzfeld, C. Jackson, J. Johnson, A. Levermann, W.H. Lipscomb, M.A. Martin, M. Morlighem, B. Parizek, D. Pollard, S.F. Price, D. Ren, E. Rignot, F. Saito, T. Sato, H. Seddik, H. Seroussi, K. Takahashi, R. Walker, W.L. Wang Insights into spatial sensitivities of ice mass response to environmental change from the SeaRISE ice sheet modeling project I: Antarctica Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 118 (2013), 1002-1024, doi:10.1002/jgrf.20081. entry - entry R.A. Bindschadler, S. Nowicki, A. Abe-Ouchi, A. Aschwanden, E. Bueler, H. Choi, J. Fastook, G. Granzow, R. Greve, G. Gutowski, C. Jackson, J. Johnson, A. Levermann, W.H. Lipscomb, M.A. Martin, M. Morlighem, B. Parizek, D. Pollard, S.F. Price, D. Ren, F. Saito, H. Seroussi, K. Takahashi, R. Walker, W.L. Wang, U. Herzfeld, H. Seddik, T. Sato Ice-sheet model sensitivities to environmental forcing and their use in projecting future sea-level (The SeaRISE Project) Journal of Glaciology 59 (2013), 195-224. DOI:10.3189/2013JoG12J125 R. Winkelmann and A. Levermann Linear response functions to project contributions to future sea level Climate Dynamics 38 (2012), DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1471-4, online first. entry - entry R. Winkelmann, A. Levermann, K. Frieler, M.A. Martin Uncertainty in future solid ice discharge from Antarctica The Cryosphere Discussions 6 (2012), 673-714; DOI 10.5194/tcd-6-673-2012. entry - entry	Projections of Antarctica's sea-level contribution (Levermann et al. (2014). Ice plug in East Antarctica (Mengel & Levermann (2014). Sea-level contribution from (a) ocean warming, (b) mountain glaciers, (c) Greenland, (d) Antarctica and (e) the total sea-level commitment after 2000 years (Levermann et al. (2013).