Sentences with phrase «antarctic sea ice volume»

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Mercer (1968, 1978) proposed that atmospheric warming could cause the ice shelves of western Antarctica to disintegrate and that as a consequence the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet (10 % of the antarctic ice volume) would lose its land connection and come afloat, causing a sea level rise of about five metrice shelves of western Antarctica to disintegrate and that as a consequence the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet (10 % of the antarctic ice volume) would lose its land connection and come afloat, causing a sea level rise of about five metrIce Sheet (10 % of the antarctic ice volume) would lose its land connection and come afloat, causing a sea level rise of about five metrice volume) would lose its land connection and come afloat, causing a sea level rise of about five metres.