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CryoSat reveals ice loss from glaciers in Alaska and Asia

Written by  Tuesday, 01 June 2021 06:00
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Gulf of Alaska

As our climate warms, ice melting from glaciers around the world is one of main causes of sea-level rise. As well as being a major contributor to this worrying trend, the loss of glacier ice also poses a direct threat to hundreds of millions of people relying on glacier runoff for drinking water and irrigation. With monitoring mountain glaciers clearly important for these reasons and more, new research, based on information from ESA’s CryoSat mission, shows how much ice has been lost from mountain glaciers in the Gulf Alaska and in High Mountain Asia since 2010.

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Spatially and temporally resolved ice loss in High Mountain Asia and the Gulf of Alaska by CryoSat 2010–2019


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