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Cumulative ice mass loss from Greenland and Antarctica

Figure Created 25 Feb 2020 Published 25 Feb 2020 Last modified 25 Feb 2020

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Topics: Climate change adaptation Water and marine environment

The figure shows the cumulative ice mass loss from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from recent studies, weighted according to the primary satellite data source following the approach of the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise (The IMBIE team, 2018, doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0179-y; The IMBIE team, 2019, doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1855-2). The shaded uncertainty intervals are estimated from the standard deviation of the individual studies.

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Methodology:: Based on ensemble of indidual studies compiled by the Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise (IMBIE). Data was provided by Andrew Shepherd (Co-Leader of IMBIE; University of Leeds, UK).
Units:: Gigatonnes per year (Gt/yr). The standard conversion to determine the sea level contribution is: 360 Gigatonnes ice mass loss correspond to 1 millimetre of sea level rise.
Rights:: EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
Owners:: European Environment Agency (EEA)
Figure type:: Graph