Recent Changes in High-Latitude Glaciers, Ice Caps, and Ice Sheets

• Main Author: Abdalati, Waleed
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Geophysics; Antarctic; Barrier Islands; Fairbanks; Greenland; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20060013398

The glaciers and ice sheets of the world contain enough ice to raise sea level by approximately 70 meters if they were to disappear entirely, and most of this ice is located in the climatically sensitive polar regions. Fortunately changes of this magnitude would probably take many thousands of years...