Sentences with phrase «balance contribution to sea level rise»

And more recent estimates of the Antarctic mass balance contribution to sea level rise has the East Antarctica ice sheet gaining mass at a more accelerated pace for 2003 - 2013 than the mere +14 Gt per year identified by Shepherd et al. (2012) for 1992 - 2011.

Not exact matches

Eric Rignot most recent work in 2008 supported a larger, accelerating contribution of Antarctica's ice mass balance to the rise in sea level.

If a negative surface mass balance were sustained for millennia, that would lead to virtually complete elimination of the Greenland ice sheet and a resulting contribution to sea level rise of about 7 m.

Balancing claims of Antarctica's soon and large contributions to sea level rise, wildfires, droughts and more Godzilla super storms.

As with IMBIE 2012, it will collate, compare, integrate, interpret, and report satellite estimates of ice sheet mass balance, with the overall aim of producing a community assessment of Greenland and Antarctica's ongoing contributions to global sea level rise.

Hay et al. (2015) argue that rates of sea level rise between 1.0 and 1.4 mm yr - 1 close the sea - level budget for 1901 — 1990 as estimated in AR5, without appealing to an underestimation of individual contributions from ocean thermal expansion, glacier melting, or ice sheet mass balance.

Ice mass loss of the marine - terminating glaciers has rapidly accelerated from close to balance in the 2000s to a sustained rate of — 56 ± 8 gigatons per year, constituting a major fraction of Antarctica's contribution to rising sea level.

These observations support recent model projections that surface mass balance, rather than ice dynamics, will dominate the ice sheet's contribution to 21st century sea level rise.

According to the report, «Contraction of the Greenland ice sheet is projected to continue to contribute to sea level rise after 2100,» and» [i] f a negative surface mass balance were sustained for millennia, that would lead to virtually complete elimination of the Greenland ice sheet and a resulting contribution to sea level rise of about 7 m,» which is equivalent to approximately 23 feet.

RealClimate has reviewed the issues raised by these articles and attempted to clarify the sometimes conflicting inferences about the current mass balance of the ice sheets, as well as their future contributions to global mean sea level rise (see here and here).

However, mass balance observations are needed for estimating the contribution of glacier melt to sea level rise, so are discussed further in Chapter 11.