{"id":31862,"date":"2023-04-20T09:51:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T08:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=31862"},"modified":"2023-04-20T09:51:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T08:51:27","slug":"have-polar-ice-sheet-melting-records-reached-their-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/have-polar-ice-sheet-melting-records-reached-their-worst\/31862\/","title":{"rendered":"Have polar ice sheet melting records reached their worst?"},"content":{"rendered":"
According to IMBIE, an international team of researchers who have combined 50 satellite surveys of Antarctica and Greenland taken between 1992 and 2020, ice sheet melting now accounts for a quarter of all sea level rise \u2013 a drastic fivefold increase since the 1990s.<\/p>\n
A paper detailing the research, \u2018Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance 1992-2020 for IPCC AR6<\/a>,\u2019 is available to view on the British Antarctic Survey website.<\/p>\n An increase in global heating has led to a huge drive forward in ice sheet melting records, and in turn, increasing sea levels and coastal flooding around our planet. Ice losses from Greenland and Antarctica can now be reliably measured from space by tracking changes in their volume, gravitational pull, or ice flow.<\/p>\n To fund these projects, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) awarded funding to IMBIE, which is led by Northumbria University\u2019s Centre for Polar Observations and Modelling, in 2011. With this funding, the team has been collecting satellite record data of polar ice sheet melting<\/a>. The data collected by the team is widely used by leading organisations, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).<\/p>\nUsing satellites and space technology to observe the rate of ice sheet melting<\/h3>\n