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Ice Sheets and Ice Shelves

The understanding of the timescale of ice sheet response to climate change has changed dramatically over the last decade. Rapid changes in ice-sheet mass have surely contributed to abrupt changes in climate and sea level in the past.
  Domain: Terrestrial
  Subdomain: Cyrosphere
  Scientific Area: Snow and Ice
  ECV Steward: Hiroyuki Enomoto
  Products:  Surface Elevation Change; Ice Velocity; Ice Mass Change; Grounding Line Location and Thickness

 


Greenland Ice Sheet

Until 2007, rate of decrease in ice sheet height in cm per year.

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cambios_en_la_capa_de_hielo_de_…; Work of the United States Federal Government under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.


 

 

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