Sentences with phrase «ice over the last couple of decades»

Two regions of the WAIS, the Amundsen and Bellingshausen seas, have experienced especially dramatic losses of ice over the last couple of decades.

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«Over the last couple of decades, the sea - level rise from the ice sheets has been about 0.6 mm / yr, from a reservoir of more than 60 meters, which is about the same as me going on a diet and losing 1/3 of one potato chip over a yOver the last couple of decades, the sea - level rise from the ice sheets has been about 0.6 mm / yr, from a reservoir of more than 60 meters, which is about the same as me going on a diet and losing 1/3 of one potato chip over a yover a year.

@ 1 Paul S. Most assessments of ice sheet contribution to sea level rise indicate an acceleration over the past decade, whereas altimeter - measured SLR has not been faster over the most recent decade There was a paper published within the last couple of years by some of this sites contributors that suggested part of the disparity may be due to an increase in land based water.