Foreword
Introduction
Climate change challenges
Section I: Long-term variation of the Earth's cryosphere
Climates of the Earth and cryosphere evolution
Section II: Observational studies on land ices
Overview and assessment of Antarctic ice-sheet mass balance estimates: 1992 - 2009
Present day regional mass loss of Greenland observed with satellite gravimetry
Interaction between the warm subsurface Atlantic water in the Sermilik Fjord and Helheim glacier in southeast Greenland
Section III: The dynamics of land ices
Response of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to multi-millennial greenhouse warming in the Earth system model of intermediate complexity LOVECLIM
Representing grounding line dynamics in numerical ice sheet models. Recent advances and outlook
Understanding and modelling rapid dynamic changes of tidewater outlet glaciers: issues and implications
Section IV: Modelling of the mass balance of the land ices
Large-scale surface mass balance of ice sheets from a comprehensive atmospheric model
Precipitation changes in high southern latitudes from global reanalyses: A cautionary tale
Ice sheets and sea level: thinking outside the box
A downscaling approach towards high-resolution surface mass balance over Antarctica
Section V: Glacier observation and modelling
Estimating the glacier contribution to sea-level rise for the period 1800-2005
Observed mass balance of mountain glaciers and Greenland ice sheet in the 20th century and the present trends
Present state and prospects of ice sheet and glacier modeling
Section VI: Sea level and geodynamic effects
Sea-level rise from the late 19th to the early 21st century
Evidence for century-timescale acceleration in mean sea levels and for recent changes in extreme sea levels
Response of a coupled ocean-atmosphere model to Greenland ice melting
GOCE, satellite gravimetry and Antarctic mass transports
