Sentences with phrase «smaller contribution to sea level rise»

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However, if as a consequence of shortening, the glaciers are also flowing faster, then we would be seeing another (small) contribution to sea level rise.

However, because they are partly submerged, their direct contribution to sea level rise is much smaller than the contribution made by the melting of an equivalent volume of (land - based) ice sheets.

However, for the recent period 1993 to 2003, the small discrepancy between observed sea level rise and the sum of known contributions might be due to unquantified human - induced processes (e.g., groundwater extraction, impoundment in reservoirs, wetland drainage and deforestation).

For the 1961 - 2003 period they clearly note: «For the period 1961 to 2003, the sum of climate contributions is estimated to be smaller than the observed sea level rise.»

Their results yielded two surprises: The melt rate for glaciers and ice caps outside Antarctica and Greenland made a smaller contribution to sea - level rise than had been estimated, and the melt rate in the Asian mountains, including the Himalayas, was dramatically lower: 4 billion tons annually versus up to 50 billion.

The melting contributes to about 1 % of the global sea level rise — a small contribution and only 3 — 4 % of the total contribution from global glaciers and ice caps.

The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission provides estimates of the cryospheric contributions to the acceleration of sea - level rise, including Greenland, Antarctica, and small ice caps and mountain glaciers (22), although these measurements only start in 2002.