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November 17, 2009 Graph of the Day for November 17, 2009"Greenland Ice Cap Melting Faster Than Ever ... Satellite observations and a state-of-the art regional atmospheric model have independently confirmed that the Greenland ice sheet is losing mass at an accelerating rate, reports a new study in Science... The Greenland ice sheet contains enough water to cause a global sea level rise of seven metres." ScienceDaily (Nov. 13, 2009).  Source: University of Illinois, Polar Research Group, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences. Hoven's Index for November 17, 2009 Area of Antarctic ice sheet: 5.4 million square miles. Area of Greenland ice sheet: 0.656 million square miles. Volume of Antarctic ice sheet: 7.2 million cubic miles. Volume of Greenland ice sheet: 0.684 million cubic miles. Percentage of all freshwater ice on earth contained in Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets: 99%. National Snow and Ice Data Center. (Wikipedia used for volume of Greenland's ice sheet.) Percentage of all freshwater ice on earth contained in the Antarctic ice sheet: 90.4%. Percentage contained in the Greenland ice sheet: 8.6%. Percentage contained in all other ice sheets and glaciers combined: 1%. Source: Calculations by author, from data above. |
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