Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279306 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 10556
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper examines trends and persistence in the Greenland ice sheet mass by applying fractional integration methods to a dataset constructed by Mankoff et al. (2020) on ice discharge for seven different regions of Greenland. The adopted empirical framework encompasses a wide range of stochastic processes and is informative about their dynamic and long-run properties. The main finding is that significant changes have occurred in the behaviour of the series of interest in recent years; more specifically, although a deterministic trend is not present, ice discharge in the various regions of Greenland has become a non-stationary, explosive process, with shocks having permanent effects. It appears that, as a result of global warming, the ice mass loss in Greenland has already reached a tipping point and become an irreversible process.
Subjects: 
Greenland ice sheet mass
long memory
fractional integration
persistence
trends
JEL: 
C22
Q54
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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