How is Antarctica melting, exactly? Crucial details are beginning to come into focus
- Written by Madelaine Gamble Rosevear, Postdoctoral Fellow in Physical Oceanography, University of Tasmania
The front of the Ross Ice Shelf floats in the Ross Sea, Antarctica.Matt Siegfried/Scripps Institution of Oceanography, CC BY-NCThe size of the Antarctic ice sheet can be hard to comprehend. Two kilometres thick on average and covering nearly twice the area of Australia, the ice sheet holds enough freshwater to raise global sea levels by 58 metres.
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