It's more likely to be a power law than either linear or exponential, see:-
http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/sg/knowledge/isbn/item6817926/The-Weather-and-Climate:-Emergent-Laws-and-Multifractal-Cascades/?site_locale=en_SG
The abstract is available on the CUP link above, the book itself will be
available
Andrew,
The published bounds on Greenland mass loss (by Pfeffer) referred to in
this thread assume
(with good reason, so far) that mass loss is dominated by ice
dynamics/kinematics,
essentially the outflow through select outlet glaciers/gates into the
warmer ocean.
Simultaneously Greenland's
Richard Alley discussed the potential Greenland and Antarctic contribution
to sea level rise in a talk at Stanford in late October 2012 which is
available on
Youtubehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=o4oMsfa_30Qnoredirect=1
On Monday, January 28, 2013 2:45:00 AM UTC-8,
There's also fresh input from Richard A. (and Waleed Abdalati) on Greenland
and sea level in this new dot earth post:
Eyes Turn to Antarctica as Study Shows Greenland's Ice Has Endured Warmer
Climates http://nyti.ms/Yq7uhA
I turned to Richard
I try to avoid weighing in on subjects I don't know anything about, but
doesn't the below ignore albedo?
If it's snowy in Greenland, the effect of rising temperatures will be more
limited than if there's less snow.
Do we have any Albedo proxies? Do ice cores show flake size?
A
On Jan 28, 2013
