A new research synthesis co-authored by an international group of 29 ice sheet experts, including Ronja Reese, Jan De Rydt, Hilmar Gudmundsson and Sainan Sun from the TiPACCs project, states that future rises in sea level could be better estimated by gaining a clearer understanding of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets.

A prominent aspect of the study highlights that short-term fluctuations in climate could have an amplification ‘feedback’ effect. Self-sustaining feedbacks, like the Marine Ice Sheet Instability, are linked to the tipping of marine regions in West Antarctica that have been analysed in TiPACCs.   

Led by the University of Lincoln, the paper has been published in the leading journal, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment.