Tuesday, 26 August 2014

Ice sheet highs, lows and loss

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Ice sheet highs, lows and loss
Paris (ESA) Aug 25, 2014 - Measurements from ESA's CryoSat mission have been used to map the height of the huge ice sheets that blanket Greenland and Antarctica and show how they are changing. New results reveal combined ice volume loss at an unprecedented rate of 500 cubic kilometres a year. The research was carried out by Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research and the res ... more


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