Just to put things in perspective: both those studies talk about gains/losses of less than about 100 GT/year, while the total mass of the Antarctic ice sheet is

Just to put things in perspective: both those studies talk about gains/losses of less than about 100 GT/year, while the total mass of the Antarctic ice sheet is about 25 million GT. http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/antarctica/east-antarctic-ice-sheet/ http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/antarctica/east-antarctic-i...