Greenland ice loss doubles from late 2000s

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 results were published in August 2014 in The Cryosphere, a European Geosciences Union journal.

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ESA: Our Activities > Observing the Earth > CryoSat http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/CryoSat

ESA: Our Activities > Observing the Earth > CryoSat, 20.08.14: Ice Sheet Highs, Lows and Loss http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/CryoSat/Ice_sheet_highs_lows_and_loss

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