Signal: Antarctic land ice loss
greenland_ssi_2010

Ice sheets melting faster than expected

by on 09. Mar, 2011 in Uncategorized

Greenland and Antarctica’s ice sheets are shrinking more quickly, suggesting United Nations projections for sea-level rise are too conservative, a U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration-funded study said.From 1992 to 2009, the two regions lost on average 36.3 billion tons more ice every year than the previous year, scientists led by Eric Rignot at NASA’s [...]

AntarcticLandIceLoss

Antarctic ice sheet melt accelerating

by on 29. Nov, 2010 in Uncategorized

Estimates of recent changes in Antarctic land ice range from losing 100 Gt/year to over 300 Gt/year. Because 360 Gt/year represents an annual sea level rise of 1 mm/year, recent estimates indicate a contribution of between 0.27 mm/year and 0.83 mm/year coming from Antarctica. There is of course uncertainty in the estimations methods but multiple [...]