Antarctic Melting Slows Atmospheric Warming and Speeds Sea Level Rise

Nov. 20, 2018

(Photo: Kelly Brunt, courtesy National Science Foundation)                        

SOCCOM researchers Ben Bronselaer, Michael Winton, Stephen Griffies and Joellen Russell are authors on a just-released paper in the journal Nature(Link is external) that investigates the impact of melting Antarctic ice. The study is the first to project how the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet will affect future climate, said first author Ben Bronselaer, adding that current climate models do not include the effects of melting ice on the global climate. As the Antarctic ice sheet melts, warming of the atmosphere will be delayed by about a decade but sea level rise will accelerate, [read more]