The International Space Science Institute (ISSI) workshop on the Earth’s Cryosphere and Sea Level Change was hosted by Lennart Bengtsson in Bern in March 2011. The main results  from the workshop are now published on-line in the special issue of “Surveys in Geophysics”.

The Nansen Center contributed with the paper Interaction between the warm subsurface Atlantic water in the Sermilik Fjord and Helheim glacier in southeast Greenland by O. M. Johannessen, A. Korablev, V. Miles, M. Miles And K. E. Solberg.

The special issue includes the following papers;

H. GRASSL / Climate change challenges (GEOP229)

G. RAMSTEIN / Climates of the Earth and cryosphere evolution

H. J. ZWALLY and M. B. GIOVINETTO / Overview and assessment of Antarctic ice-sheet mass balance estimates: 1992 - 2009

E. SCHRAMA, B. WOUTERS and B. VERMEERSEN / Present day regional mass loss of Greenland observed with satellite gravimetry

O. M. JOHANNESSEN, A. KORABLEV, V. MILES, M. MILES and K. E. SOLBERG / Interaction between the warm subsurface Atlantic water in the Sermilik Fjord and Helheim glacier in southeast Greenland

P. HUYBRECHTS, H. GOELZER, I. JANSSENS, E. DRIESSCHAERT, T. FICHEFET, H. GOOSSE and M.-F. LOUTRE / Response of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to multi-millennial greenhouse warming in the Earth system model of intermediate complexity LOVECLIM

D. DOCQUIER, L. PERICHON and F. PATTYN / Representing grounding line dynamics in numerical ice sheet models. Recent advances and outlook

A. VIELI and F. M. NICK / Understanding and modelling rapid dynamic changes of tidewater outlet glaciers: issues and implications

L. BENGTSSON, S. KOUMOUTSARIS and K. HODGES / Large-scale surface mass balance of ice sheets from a comprehensive atmospheric model

J. P. NICOLAS and D. H. BROMWICH / Precipitation changes in high southern latitudes from global reanalyses: A cautionary tale

M. VAN DEN BROEKE, J. BAMBER, J. LENAERTS and E. RIGNOT / Ice sheets and sea level: thinking outside the box

H. GALLAÉE, C. AGOSTA, L. GENTIAL, V. FAVIER and G. KRINNER / A downscaling approach towards high-resolution surface mass balance over Antarctica

P. W. LECLERCQ, J. OERLEMANS and J. G. COGLEY / Estimating the glacier contribution to sea-level rise for the period 1800-2005

A. OHMURA / Observed mass balance of mountain glaciers and Greenland ice sheet in the 20th century and the present trends

H. BLATTER, R. GREVE and A. ABE-OUCHI / Present state and prospects of ice sheet and glacier modeling

J. A. CHURCH and N. J. WHITE / Sea-level rise from the late 19th to the early 21st century

P. L. WOODWORTH, M. MENÉNDEZ and W. R. GEHRELS / Evidence for century-timescale acceleration in mean sea levels and for recent changes in extreme sea levels

D. STAMMER, N. AGARWAL, P. HERRMANN, A. KÖHL and C. R. MECHOSO / Response of a coupled ocean-atmosphere model to Greenland ice melting

R. RUMMEL, M. HORWATH, W. YI, A. ALBERTELLA, W. BOSCH and R. HAAGMANS / GOCE, satellite gravimetry and Antarctic mass transports