The Antarctic Ice Sheet lost about 3 trillion tonnes of ice between 1992 and 2017. This figure corresponds to a mean sea-level rise of about 8 millimetres. Antarctica’s ice sheets, which contain enough water to raise global sea level by 58 metres, are a key indicator of climate change and driver of sea-level rise.
Nature
Published June 13, 2018 (News release from Nature Research Press)
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Canadian co-authors: Benoit Lecavalier, Memorial University of Newfoundland – b.lecavalier@mun.ca; Richard Peltier, University of Toronto – peltier@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca
