Climate change: snowfall-driven growth in East Antarctic ice sheet mitigates recent sea-level rise

Satellite radar altimetry measurements indicate that the East Antarctic ice-sheet interior north of 81.6°S increased in mass by 45 ± 7 billion metric tons per year from 1992 to 2003. Comparisons with contemporaneous meteorological model snowfall estimates suggest that the gain in mass was associat...

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Published in:Science
Main Authors: Davis, Curt H., Li, Yonghong, McConnell, Joseph R., Frey, Markus M., Hanna, Edward
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2005
Subjects:
F890 Geographical and Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Antarctic
East Antarctic Ice Sheet
Antarc*
Ice Sheet
Online Access:https://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/26060/
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1110662
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Summary:Satellite radar altimetry measurements indicate that the East Antarctic ice-sheet interior north of 81.6°S increased in mass by 45 ± 7 billion metric tons per year from 1992 to 2003. Comparisons with contemporaneous meteorological model snowfall estimates suggest that the gain in mass was associated with increased precipitation. A gain of this magnitude is enough to slow sea-level rise by 0.12 ± 0.02 millimeters per year.

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