Ice Loss from the Two Polar Ice Sheets

Figure 34.17

This figure appears in chapter 34 of the Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment report.

http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/appendices/faqs/graphics/ice-loss-two-polar-ice-sheets

GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) satellite measurements show that both Greenland and Antarctica are, on the whole, losing ice as the atmosphere and oceans warm. (Figure source: adapted from Wouters et al. 201313).

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This figure was created on October 22, 2013.

This figure was derived from Limits in detecting acceleration of ice sheet mass loss due to climate variability using the activity nca3-ice-loss-from-the-two-polar-ice-sheets-activity-1. (The figure provides quantitative data in the form of graphs showing ice loss from the two polar ice sheets)

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