Land ice

The melting of land ice in the Antarctica is depositing fresh water into the ocean and diluting the salt content, increasing the amount of ice and 'compensating' for the loss of ice elsewhere.

Once land ice melts, the water quickly floats into the oceans and increases its total volume.

As to land ice, keep in mind that scientists have estimated that a melted land ice sheet measuring 2,500 square miles and 1,000 feet thick would raise sea levels up to one-quarter inch.

Trenberth and his colleagues say if society continues to emit greenhouse gas at its current rate, oceans rill rise one foot by the end of the century on top of the rise expected from land ice like Greenland and Antarctica.

The attribution of the changes in sea level can be directly tied to increases in surface land and sea temperatures, because the changes are due almost entirely to the melting of land ice (Bamber et al.

Second, melting land ice flows into the ocean, also increasing sea level across the globe.

If all the land ice present on Earth today were to melt, it would raise the global sea levels by about 70 meters (230 feet), according to the (https://water.usgs.gov/edu/earthglacier.html) United States Geological Survey .

They will also monitor storms, sea and land ice, cloud cover, rainfall, snow, ozone, and water vapor.

As these ice shelves lose strength and fragment, they no longer hold back the connected land ice. Since my first trip to the Arctic, the Greenland ice sheet has lost more than 3,000 gigatons of ice.

"There are ongoing effects due to the last ice age, heating and expansion of the ocean due to global warming, changes in ocean circulation, and present-day melting of land ice, all of which result in unique patterns of sea-level change.

However, according to Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) glacier classification protocols, perennial ice masses connecting to the main glacier body should be included within ice margins (Raup and Khalsa, 2010).