Future Sea Level Change Under Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 and Phase 6 Scenarios From the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets

Antony J. Payne; Sophie Nowicki; Ayako Abe-Ouchi; Cécile Agosta; Patrick Alexander; Torsten Albrecht; Xylar Asay-Davis; Andy Aschwanden; Alice Barthel; Thomas J. Bracegirdle; Reinhard Calov; Christopher Chambers; Youngmin Choi; Richard Cullather; Joshua Cuzzone; Christophe Dumas; Tamsin L. Edwards; Denis Felikson; Xavier Fettweis; Benjamin K. Galton-Fenzi; Heiko Goelzer; Rupert Gladstone; Nicholas R. Golledge; Jonathan M. Gregory; Ralf Greve; Tore Hattermann; Matthew J. Hoffman; Angelika Humbert; Philippe Huybrechts; Nicolas C. Jourdain; Thomas Kleiner; Peter Kuipers Munneke; Eric Larour; Sebastien Le clec'h; Victoria Lee; Gunter Leguy; William H. Lipscomb; Christopher M. Little; Daniel P. Lowry; Mathieu Morlighem; Isabel Nias; Frank Pattyn; Tyler Pelle; Stephen F. Price; Aurélien Quiquet; Ronja Reese; Martin Rückamp; Nicole Jeanne Schlegel; Hélène Seroussi; Andrew Shepherd; Erika Simon; Donald Slater; Robin S. Smith; Fiammetta Straneo; Sainan Sun; Lev Tarasov; Luke D. Trusel; Jonas Van Breedam; Roderik van de Wal; Michiel van den Broeke; Ricarda Winkelmann; Chen Zhao; Tong Zhang; Thomas Zwinger

doi:10.1029/2020GL091741

Future Sea Level Change Under Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 and Phase 6 Scenarios From the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets

Antony J. Payne^*, Sophie Nowicki, Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Cécile Agosta, Patrick Alexander, Torsten Albrecht, Xylar Asay-Davis, Andy Aschwanden, Alice Barthel, Thomas J. Bracegirdle, Reinhard Calov, Christopher Chambers, Youngmin Choi, Richard Cullather, Joshua Cuzzone, Christophe Dumas, Tamsin L. Edwards, Denis Felikson, Xavier Fettweis, Benjamin K. Galton-FenziHeiko Goelzer, Rupert Gladstone, Nicholas R. Golledge, Jonathan M. Gregory, Ralf Greve, Tore Hattermann, Matthew J. Hoffman, Angelika Humbert, Philippe Huybrechts, Nicolas C. Jourdain, Thomas Kleiner, Peter Kuipers Munneke, Eric Larour, Sebastien Le clec'h, Victoria Lee, Gunter Leguy, William H. Lipscomb, Christopher M. Little, Daniel P. Lowry, Mathieu Morlighem, Isabel Nias, Frank Pattyn, Tyler Pelle, Stephen F. Price, Aurélien Quiquet, Ronja Reese, Martin Rückamp, Nicole Jeanne Schlegel, Hélène Seroussi, Andrew Shepherd, Erika Simon, Donald Slater, Robin S. Smith, Fiammetta Straneo, Sainan Sun, Lev Tarasov, Luke D. Trusel, Jonas Van Breedam, Roderik van de Wal, Michiel van den Broeke, Ricarda Winkelmann, Chen Zhao, Tong Zhang, Thomas Zwinger

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Projections of the sea level contribution from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets (GrIS and AIS) rely on atmospheric and oceanic drivers obtained from climate models. The Earth System Models participating in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6) generally project greater future warming compared with the previous Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5) effort. Here we use four CMIP6 models and a selection of CMIP5 models to force multiple ice sheet models as part of the Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project for CMIP6 (ISMIP6). We find that the projected sea level contribution at 2100 from the ice sheet model ensemble under the CMIP6 scenarios falls within the CMIP5 range for the Antarctic ice sheet but is significantly increased for Greenland. Warmer atmosphere in CMIP6 models results in higher Greenland mass loss due to surface melt. For Antarctica, CMIP6 forcing is similar to CMIP5 and mass gain from increased snowfall counteracts increased loss due to ocean warming.

Original language	English
Article number	e2020GL091741
Pages (from-to)	1-8
Journal	Geophysical Research Letters
Volume	48
Issue number	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091741
Publication status	Published - 28 Aug 2021

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Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) project for providing support for ISMIP6 through the sponsorship of workshops and hosting the ISMIP6 website. We acknowledge the University at Buffalo for their help with ISMIP6 data distribution, and the multiple agencies that support CMIP5, CMIP6, and the Earth System Grid Federation. This is ISMIP6 contribution number 12. This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Grant agreement No 869304, PROTECT contribution number 4.

Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) project for providing support for ISMIP6 through the sponsorship of workshops and hosting the ISMIP6 website. We acknowledge the University at Buffalo for their help with ISMIP6 data distribution, and the multiple agencies that support CMIP5, CMIP6, and the Earth System Grid Federation. This is ISMIP6 contribution number 12. This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Grant agreement No 869304, PROTECT contribution number 4.

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The authors would like to thank the Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) project for providing support for ISMIP6 through the sponsorship of workshops and hosting the ISMIP6 website. We acknowledge the University at Buffalo for their help with ISMIP6 data distribution, and the multiple agencies that support CMIP5, CMIP6, and the Earth System Grid Federation. This is ISMIP6 contribution number 12. This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Grant agreement No 869304, PROTECT contribution number 4. The authors would like to thank the Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) project for providing support for ISMIP6 through the sponsorship of workshops and hosting the ISMIP6 website. We acknowledge the University at Buffalo for their help with ISMIP6 data distribution, and the multiple agencies that support CMIP5, CMIP6, and the Earth System Grid Federation. This is ISMIP6 contribution number 12. This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Grant agreement No 869304, PROTECT contribution number 4.

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Antarctica
Greenland
ice sheet
sea level

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Payne, A. J., Nowicki, S., Abe-Ouchi, A., Agosta, C., Alexander, P., Albrecht, T., Asay-Davis, X., Aschwanden, A., Barthel, A., Bracegirdle, T. J., Calov, R., Chambers, C., Choi, Y., Cullather, R., Cuzzone, J., Dumas, C., Edwards, T. L., Felikson, D., Fettweis, X., ... Zwinger, T. (2021). Future Sea Level Change Under Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 and Phase 6 Scenarios From the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(16), 1-8. Article e2020GL091741. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091741

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Future Sea Level Change Under Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 and Phase 6 Scenarios From the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets

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