How is climate affecting ice sheets and glaciers and how do they affect the climate? What makes these ice sheets unstable? Can and will they reach tipping points and over what time scales is this possible? Can sea level rise by several meters by the end of the Century?

This talk was part of our second livestream session, recorded on June 23. Frank Pattyn is professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles. He is best known for developing ice-sheet models and leading model intercomparisons. He took part in several expeditions to Antarctica and to glaciers of the Arctic in order to study the interaction of glaciers and ice sheets with subglacial water and the ocean.

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