Wednesday, 9 January 2013

A new approach to assessing future sea level rise from ice sheets

Bristol UK (SPX) Jan 09, 2013



The study, published in Nature Climate Change, is the first of its kind on ice sheet melting to use structured expert elicitation (EE) together with an approach which mathematically pools experts' opinions. EE is already used in a number of other scientific fields such as forecasting volcanic eruptions.

The ice sheets covering Antarctica and Greenland contain about 99.5 per cent ....