Study illustrates nuances of gravitational pull of ice sheets - EurekAlert

When a large ice sheet begins to melt, global-mean sea level rises, but local sea level near the ice sheet may in fact drop. In American Journal of Physics, a researcher illustrates this effect through a series of calculations, beginning with a simple, analyt…

image: The change in sea level due to melting 1,000 gigatonnes of ice from Antarctica is illustrated for different scenarios.view more  Credit: Douglas A. Kurtze WASHINGTON, April 21, 2022 – It is … [+3504 chars]

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