Twenty-first century global glacier evolution under CMIP6 scenarios and the role of glacier-specific observations

15 November 2024

Glaciers are major contributors to sea-level rise and act as key water resources. Here, the authors model the global evolution of glaciers under the latest generation of climate scenarios. They show that the type of observations used for model calibration can strongly affect the projections at the local scale. Their newly projected 21st century global mass loss is higher than the current community estimate as reported in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.

Please also read the press release by Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Contact: Harry Zekollari (zharry@ethz.ch and harry.zekollari@vub.be)