Ice-sheet uncertainty

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Subjects / Keywords:: Climate Change ( lcsh )
Ice Sheets ( lcsh )
Greenland ( lcsh )
Antarctica ( lcsh )

Abstract:: Satellite gravimetry has been playing an increasingly important role in monitoring the state of the polar ice sheets since 2002. A suite of mass-balance studies1–3 based on the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission has revealed substantial losses of ice-sheet mass in Greenland and West Antarctica. What’s more, the contribution of the ice sheets to global mean sea-level rise has accelerated over the past few years2. Writing in Nature Geoscience, Wu and colleagues4 describe an innovative approach employed to derive ice-mass changes from GRACE data and suggest significantly smaller ice-mass loss overall than earlier GRACE-based estimates. ( English )

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