Expert Group on Ice Sheet Mass Balance and Sea Level (ISMASS): Note on Project End

A note from ISMASS leadership:

The Expert Group on Ice Sheet Mass Balance and Sea Level (ISMASS) is an activity cosponsored by the WCRP Climate and Cryosphere Project (CliC), the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC). Roots of the activity go back to 1993 and it has existed in its present form since 2012.

Over the past years, ISMASS has promoted research on the estimation of the mass balance of ice sheets and their contribution to sea level, integrating observations and modelling efforts. It has facilitated coordination among different international efforts, proposed directions for future research, and attracted new generations of scientists into this field of research. ISMASS has organised a number of community workshops that have often resulted in high level review papers and ISMASS members have initiated and contributed to a range of model intercomparison exercises focussed on ice sheets.

Over the period of activity of ISMASS, the scientific landscape around ice sheet mass balance and sea-level has developed substantially, the scientific subject has grown in importance and new activities have emerged. It is with the intention to give room for those and other new activities that we are ending the ISMASS expert group today.

We would like to thank everybody who has contributed to ISMASS activities over the years and our sponsors who have facilitated our workshops, communications and day-to-day operations.

With kind regards,

Heiko Goelzer, Edward Hanna, Frank Pattyn, Shawn Marshal

CliC ISMASS page
ISMASS Publications
SCAR ISMASS page
IASC page on the ISMASS Kick-off Workshop (2012)

References

Note that ISMASS has facilitated science and was not a science actor or science programme. As such, peer-reviewed publications were not its main focus. However, ISMASS did produce the following publications. Click on an article to learn more.

Hanna, E., Topál, D., Box, J. E., Buzzard, S., Christie, F. D. W., Hvidberg, C., Morlighem, M., De Santis, L., Silvano, A., Colleoni, F., Sasgen, I., Banwell, A. F., van den Broeke, M. R., DeConto, R., De Rydt, J., Goelzer, H., Gossart, A., Gudmundsson, G. H., Lindbäck, K., Miles, B., Mottram, R., Pattyn, F., Reese, R., Rignot, E., Srivastava, A., Sun, S., Toller, J., Tuckett, P. A., and Ultee, L.: Short- and long-term variability of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, Nat Rev Earth Environ, 5, 193–210, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-023-00509-7, 2024.
Hanna, E., Pattyn, F., Navarro, F., Favier, V., Goelzer, H., van den Broeke, M., Vizcaino, M., Whitehouse, P., Ritz, C., Bulthuis, K., and Smith, B.: Mass balance of the ice sheets and glaciers – progress since AR5 and challenges, Earth-Science Reviews, 201, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102976, 2020.
Pattyn, F., Ritz, C., Hanna, E., Asay-Davis, X., DeConto, R., Durand, G., Favier, L., Fettweis, X., Goelzer, H., Golledge, N. R., Kuipers Munneke, P., Lenaerts, J. T. M., Nowicki, S., Payne, A. J., Robinson, A., Seroussi, H., Trusel, L. D., and van den Broeke, M.: The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets under 1.5 °C global warming, Nature Clim Change, 8, 1053–1061, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0305-8, 2018.
Hanna, E., Navarro, F. J., Pattyn, F., Domingues, C. M., Fettweis, X., Ivins, E. R., Nicholls,
R. J., Ritz, C., Smith, B., and Tulaczyk, S.: Ice-sheet mass balance and climate change. Nature 498, 51–59 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12238

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