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Just to be clear: when floating sea ice melts, it does not change the ocean level. Usually land-based Arctic ice is enumerated as Greenland and other glaciers.
by cjensen 11y ago
Just to be clear: when floating sea ice melts, it does not change the ocean level. Usually land-based Arctic ice is enumerated as Greenland and other glaciers.
- schiffern 11y ago>Just to be clear: when floating sea ice melts, it does not change the ocean level. Unless you consider thermal expansion due to albedo change. Sea ice is one of the whitest surfaces on the planet, and open water one of the darkest.
- tete 11y agoI don't know how much and a quick Google (and DuckDuckGo) didn't give me any results, but since you mention it. The arctic ice also partly covers land, not only of Greenland I think. Do you maybe know how much that amounts to? And slightly related it's not pure ice. It contains all sorts of things. Again, not sure how much that is, but curious to learn if anyone has any numbers and maybe even is able to put them into relation.