Global Ice Loss from 2003-2010 Could “Cover the Entire United States in One and Half Feet of Water”Climate Progress and NASA,
22 februari / 7 februari 2012
[...] 'Earth is losing a huge amount of ice to the ocean annually, and these new results will help us answer important questions in terms of both sea rise and how the planet’s cold regions are responding to global change', said University of Colorado Boulder physics professor John Wahr, who helped lead the study. 'The strength of GRACE is it sees all the mass in the system, even though its resolution is not high enough to allow us to determine separate contributions from each individual glacier.'
About a quarter of the average annual ice loss came from glaciers and ice caps outside of Greenland and Antarctica (roughly 148 billion tons, or 39 cubic miles). Ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica and their peripheral ice caps and glaciers averaged 385 billion tons (100 cubic miles) a year. Results of the study [...] [have been] published online Feb. 8 in the journal Nature.
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