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Abstract

• Earth’s ice sheets and glaciers are responding rapidly to climate change. In the years and decades ahead, sea level rise, driven in part by melting ice, will affect millions of people in U.S. coastal communities and hundreds of millions more around the world. The cost of adaptation to sea level change along U.S. coastlines alone is expected to exceed $1 trillion by 2100 [Neumann et al., 2015].

  Our ability to accurately and actionably project ice loss and its contributions to sea level rise requires glaciological knowledge

  and research coordination, as well as effective knowledge dissemination to decisionmakers, that are still unrealized. Current ad hoc efforts to meet these needs are inadequate, delaying the benefits of scientific research for many communities already grappling with increased coastal flooding and other impacts [Wing et al., 2022]. Through more coordinated planning and funding efforts, we can better serve these communities.

   

Creator

• Moon, Twila A
• Catania, Ginny
• Aschwanden, Andy

Date Issued

• 2022

Academic Affiliation

• Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

Journal Title

• Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union Journal

Journal Volume

• 103

Last Modified

• 2024-11-17

Resource Type

• Article

Rights Statement

• In Copyright

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.1029/2022eo220238

ISSN

• 2324-9250

Language

• English [eng]

License

• Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International

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