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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-233-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-233-2021
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Review article: Earth's ice imbalance
Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, School of Earth and
Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Isobel R. Lawrence
Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, School of Earth and
Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Inès N. Otosaka
Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, School of Earth and
Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Andrew Shepherd
Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, School of Earth and
Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Noel Gourmelen
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9XP, UK
Livia Jakob
EarthWave Ltd, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK
Paul Tepes
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9XP, UK
Lin Gilbert
Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Department of Space and Climate Physics, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
Peter Nienow
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9XP, UK
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Satellite observations are the best method for tracking ice loss, because the cryosphere is vast and remote. Using these, and some numerical models, we show that Earth has lost 28 trillion tonnes (Tt) of ice since 1994 from Arctic sea ice (7.6 Tt), ice shelves (6.5 Tt), mountain glaciers (6.1 Tt), the Greenland (3.8 Tt) and Antarctic ice sheets (2.5 Tt), and Antarctic sea ice (0.9 Tt). It has taken just 3.2 % of the excess energy Earth has absorbed due to climate warming to cause this ice loss.
Satellite observations are the best method for tracking ice loss, because the cryosphere is vast...
