Recent contributions of glaciers and ice caps to sea level rise

Thomas Jacob, John Wahr (), W. Tad Pfeffer and Sean Swenson
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Thomas Jacob: University of Colorado at Boulder
John Wahr: University of Colorado at Boulder
W. Tad Pfeffer: Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado at Boulder
Sean Swenson: National Center for Atmospheric Research

Nature, 2012, vol. 482, issue 7386, 514-518

Abstract: Satellite measurements of Earth’s gravity field show that the mass loss of glaciers and ice caps contributed to sea level rise by approximately 0.4 millimetres per year between 2003 and 2010.

Date: 2012
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