Sentences with phrase «sea level rise per year»

But in any case, the loss of Thwaites Glacier appears inevitable, Joughin said: «All of our simulations show it will retreat at less than a millimeter of sea level rise per year for a couple of hundred years, and then, boom, it just starts to really go.»

We know that melting ice sheets have contributed to meters of sea level rise per year century (sorry for the error!)

The Greenland ice sheet is thought to be one of the largest contributors to global sea level rise over the past 20 years, accounting for 0.5 millimeters of the current total of 3.2 millimeters of sea level rise per year.

Ice sheet mass decreased at 152 ± 80 cubic kilometers of ice per year, equal to 0.4 ± 0.2 millimeters of sea level rise per year.

«We know that melting ice sheets have contributed to meters of sea level rise per year — meltwater pulse 1 A for instance, or even the early Holocene final collapse of the Laurentide Ice Sheet.

When dividing the mass balance value by the surface area of the oceans (361.6 million square kilometers), the final result is 0.58 millimeters of sea level rise per year.

Based on this historical record and the fact that the Laurentide melted away under summertime temperatures similar to those expected in Greenland by the end of this century, Carlson and his colleagues forecast glacial melting that contributes somewhere between 2.8 inches (seven centimeters) and 5.1 inches (13 centimeters) of sea level rise per year, or as much as a 4.3 - foot (1.3 - meter) increase by 2100.