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The amount of salt water displaced by the fresh water ice is equal to its weight, but the melted fresh water will take up a slightly larger volume than the disp
by fullstop 6y ago
The amount of salt water displaced by the fresh water ice is equal to its weight, but the melted fresh water will take up a slightly larger volume than the displaced salt water. It is small, but calculable.
From what I remember reading, if all of the floating sea ice on the globe were to melt right now, sea levels would rise by about 5 centimeters.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2010GL042496 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/201...