The sea level fingerprint of recent ice mass fluxes

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: J. Bamber, R. Riva
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2010
• Subjects: geo; envir; Canada; Greenland; Indian; Meier; Pacific; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-4-621-2010; http://www.the-cryosphere.net/4/621/2010/tc-4-621-2010.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/d1e97b0407834b38bb2646b72efd91e6

The sea level contribution from glacial sources has been accelerating during the first decade of the 21st Century (Meier et al., 2007; Velicogna, 2009). This contribution is not distributed uniformly across the world's oceans due to both oceanographic and gravitational effects. We compute the s...