Mechanisms and impacts of Earth system tipping elements

S Wang, A Foster, EA Lenz, JD Kessler… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tipping elements are components of the Earth system which may respond nonlinearly to
anthropogenic climate change by transitioning toward substantially different long‐term …

Coastal flooding in Asian megadeltas: Recent advances, persistent challenges, and call for actions amidst local and global changes

M Becker, K Seeger, A Paszkowski… - Reviews of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Asian megadeltas, specifically the Ganges‐Brahmaputra‐Meghna, Irrawaddy, Chao Phraya,
Mekong, and Red River deltas host half of the world's deltaic population and are vital for …

Sea-level trends across The Bahamas constrain peak last interglacial ice melt

B Dyer, J Austermann, WJ D'Andrea… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
During the last interglacial (LIG) period, global mean sea level (GMSL) was higher than at
present, likely driven by greater high-latitude insolation. Past sea-level estimates require …

Inference of the timescale‐dependent apparent viscosity structure in the upper mantle beneath Greenland

GJG Paxman, HCP Lau, J Austermann… - AGU …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Contemporary crustal uplift and relative sea level (RSL) change in Greenland is caused by
the response of the solid Earth to ongoing and historical ice mass change. Glacial isostatic …

Frequency dependent mantle viscoelasticity via the complex viscosity: Cases from Antarctica

HCP Lau, J Austermann, BK Holtzman… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Studies of glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) often use paleoshorelines and present‐day
deformation to constrain the viscosity of the mantle and the thickness of the elastic …

[HTML][HTML] Last interglacial global mean sea level from high-precision U-series ages of Bahamian fossil coral reefs

OA Dumitru, B Dyer, J Austermann… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Accurate characterization of Last Interglacial (MIS 5e;∼ 129–116 ka) sea level is
important for understanding ice sheet sensitivity to climate change, with implications for …

The impact of 3-D Earth structure on far-field sea level following interglacial West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse

EM Powell, L Pan, MJ Hoggard, K Latychev… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Prior to inferring ice sheet stability from past interglacial sea-level records, these records
must first be corrected for the contaminating effects of glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) …

Glacial‐isostatic adjustment models using geodynamically constrained 3D Earth structures

M Bagge, V Klemann, B Steinberger… - Geochemistry …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Glacial‐isostatic adjustment (GIA) is the key process controlling relative sea‐level (RSL) and
paleo‐topography. The viscoelastic response of the solid Earth is controlled by its viscosity …

FastIsostasy v1. 0–a regional, accelerated 2D glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) model accounting for the lateral variability of the solid Earth

J Swierczek-Jereczek, M Montoya… - Geoscientific Model …, 2024 - gmd.copernicus.org
The vast majority of ice-sheet modelling studies rely on simplified representations of the
glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA), which, among other limitations, do not account for lateral …

GIA imaging of 3-D mantle viscosity based on palaeo sea level observations–Part I: Sensitivity kernels for an Earth with laterally varying viscosity

AJ Lloyd, O Crawford, D Al-Attar… - Geophysical Journal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
SUMMARY A key initial step in geophysical imaging is to devise an effective means of
mapping the sensitivity of an observation to the model parameters, that is to compute its …