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Delaying future sea-level rise by storing water in Antarctica
K. Frieler
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany
M. Mengel
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany
A. Levermann
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Physics, Potsdam University, Potsdam,
Germany
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New
York, USA
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- Increasing Antarctic Ice Mass to Help Offset Sea Level Rise E. Larson et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14101564
- Choosing the future of Antarctica S. Rintoul et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0173-4
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Short summary
Sea level will continue to rise for centuries. We investigate the option of delaying sea-level rise by pumping ocean water onto Antarctica. Due to wave propagation ice is discharged much faster back into the ocean than expected from pure advection. A millennium-scale storage of > 80 % of the additional ice requires a distance of > 700 km from the coastline. The pumping energy required to elevate ocean water to mitigate a sea-level rise of 3 mm yr−1 exceeds 7 % of current global primary energy supply.
Sea level will continue to rise for centuries. We investigate the option of delaying sea-level...
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