Sentences with phrase «ongoing ice mass loss»
Gladstone et al. (2012) also investigated the future of PIG, and they too found ongoing ice mass loss to be likely under a «business as usual scenario» (IPCC), with full collapse of the main trunk of PIG during the 22nd century still a possibility.
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Joughin et al. (2010) applied a numerical ice sheet model to predicting the future of PIG, their model suggested ongoing loss of ice mass from PIG, with a maximum rate of global sea level rise of 2.7 cm per century.
And since you have missed this acceleration you have assumed that the rate will remain at 3.3 mm / year for the rest of this century, despite ongoing observations of increases in ice mass loss in Greenland and parts of Antarctica.
The ongoing flux of mantle material into areas which have experienced large - scale ice - mass loss since the LGM looks like mass gain to GRACE.
The main memory is through the warming of the oceans, manifested in part through the ongoing rise in sea level, and the loss of Arctic sea ice and glacier mass.
Ongoing sea level rise due to the loss of ice mass into the sea is and will impact coastlines profoundly but to different degrees — i.e., the oceans are not a simple bathtub subject to uniform sea level rise.