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| Title |
Attribution of global glacier mass loss to anthropogenic and natural causes
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| Published in |
Science, August 2014
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| DOI | 10.1126/science.1254702 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Ben Marzeion, J Graham Cogley, Kristin Richter, David Parkes |
| Abstract |
The ongoing global glacier retreat is affecting human societies by causing sea-level rise, changing seasonal water availability, and increasing geohazards. Melting glaciers are an icon of anthropogenic climate change. However, glacier response times are typically decades or longer, which implies that the present-day glacier retreat is a mixed response to past and current natural climate variability and current anthropogenic forcing. Here, we show that only 25 ± 35% of the global glacier mass loss during the period from 1851 to 2010 is attributable to anthropogenic causes. Nevertheless, the anthropogenic signal is detectable with high confidence in glacier mass balance observations during 1991 to 2010, and the anthropogenic fraction of global glacier mass loss during that period has increased to 69 ± 24%. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 215 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 47 | 22% |
| United Kingdom | 21 | 10% |
| France | 16 | 7% |
| Canada | 14 | 7% |
| Spain | 6 | 3% |
| Norway | 4 | 2% |
| Sweden | 3 | 1% |
| Germany | 3 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 2 | <1% |
| Other | 19 | 9% |
| Unknown | 80 | 37% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 163 | 76% |
| Scientists | 39 | 18% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 10 | 5% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 443 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | <1% |
| Germany | 2 | <1% |
| Chile | 2 | <1% |
| Nepal | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Ecuador | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 8 | 2% |
| Unknown | 422 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 97 | 22% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 83 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 47 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 43 | 10% |
| Professor | 24 | 5% |
| Other | 67 | 15% |
| Unknown | 82 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 183 | 41% |
| Environmental Science | 78 | 18% |
| Engineering | 22 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 19 | 4% |
| Social Sciences | 7 | 2% |
| Other | 39 | 9% |
| Unknown | 95 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 686. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 October 2023.
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#31,042
of 25,837,817 outputs
Outputs from Science
#1,353
of 83,358 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#177
of 245,446 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#14
of 906 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 83,358 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 65.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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