{"id":2953,"date":"2022-09-30T09:21:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T14:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.csr.utexas.edu\/?p=2953"},"modified":"2022-09-30T09:21:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T14:21:35","slug":"ocean-altimetry-observations-confirm-models-of-sea-level-change-from-greenland-mass-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/ocean-altimetry-observations-confirm-models-of-sea-level-change-from-greenland-mass-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Altimetry Observations Confirm Models of Sea-Level Change from Greenland Mass Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2954\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2954\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2954\" src=\"https:\/\/www.csr.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Hoffman-pic-DSC_0364-001.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo Credit: Matthew Hoffman\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Hoffman-pic-DSC_0364-001.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Hoffman-pic-DSC_0364-001-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Hoffman-pic-DSC_0364-001-1024x681.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Hoffman-pic-DSC_0364-001-768x511.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Hoffman-pic-DSC_0364-001-83x55.jpeg 83w, https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Hoffman-pic-DSC_0364-001-1536x1022.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">As ice sheets and glaciers on Greenland melt and the water is redistributed around the global oceans, sea level does not rise uniformly. New research using high-latitude measurements by satellites confirms computational models that forecast lower sea level around Greenland but higher levels farther away. Credit: Matthew Hoffman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As ice sheets and glaciers continue to lose mass, we expect sea levels to rise by different amounts around the world and even to fall near the ice sheets. Models predicting these patterns form the basis of future sea-level projections.\u00a0 However, the patterns over large spatial scales have never been directly observed, as they were obscured by other shorter timescale processes caused by changing currents and ocean density.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HpEQWxhpqYM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small>Melting of the Greenland ice sheet is accelerating. Video Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory<br \/>\n<\/small><\/center><br \/>\nIn a paper recently published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.abo0926\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science<\/a>, led by Sophie Coulson at Los Alamos National Laboratory, these patterns of sea level change have been unambiguously observed near Greenland.\u00a0 \u201cUsing sea-surface-height observations from satellites in the way we have independently verifies observations of Arctic and Greenland ice-mass loss and allows us to tease apart contributions to global sea-level rise from individual ice sheets and glacier systems,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/discover.lanl.gov\/news\/0929-sea-level-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said Coulson<\/a>. The observation of these patterns adds confidence to future projections of sea rise with given a scenario of mass loss from the ice sheets and glaciers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Paper<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.abo0926\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Detection of the Sea Level Fingerprint of Greenland Ice Sheet Melt, by Sophie Coulson, S\u00f6nke Dangendorf, Jerry X. Mitrovica, Mark E. Tamisiea, Linda Pan and David T. Sandwell, <i>Science<\/i>, DOI: 10.1126\/science.abo0926<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Press Release Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/discover.lanl.gov\/news\/0929-sea-level-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/discover.lanl.gov\/news\/0929-sea-level-change<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As ice sheets and glaciers continue to lose mass, we expect sea levels to rise by different amounts around the world and even to fall near the ice sheets. 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