Sentences with phrase «major contribution to sea level rise»

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Sea level rise due to ice shelf collapse is as yet limited, but large ice shelves surrounding some of the major Antarctic glaciers could be at risk, and their collapse would result in a significant sea level rise contribution [2Sea level rise due to ice shelf collapse is as yet limited, but large ice shelves surrounding some of the major Antarctic glaciers could be at risk, and their collapse would result in a significant sea level rise contribution [2sea level rise contribution [22].

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.