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Commitment factors and respective response times
| Contribution | Commitment parameter | Calibrated parameter |
| Thermal expansion | 0.2–0.626 | 81.7–1290.0 |
| Mountain glaciers | 0.0–18.0 | 98.0−295.0 |
| Greenland SID | −0.9 to -0.5 | 1.6e-05–0.000109 |
| Greenland SMB | 0.05–0.21 | 99.7–927.0 |
| Antarctica SID | 1.0–1.5 | 1350.0–2910.0 |
| Antarctica SMB | 0.002–0.006 |
For Greenland SID, the prefactor is given instead of the response time as calibrated parameter. Antarctic SMB has not been calibrated.
