Cryosphere

World's melted ice would cover US - study

9 Feb 2012

The total volume of water that has melted from all of the world's polar ice sheets, ice caps and mountain glaciers over the past decade would fill Britain's largest lake, Windermere, more than 13,000 times, according to one of the...

Global sea level rise: NASA mission takes stock of Earth's melting land ice

9 Feb 2012

In the first comprehensive satellite study of its kind, researchers have used NASA data to calculate how much Earth's melting land ice is adding to global sea level rise. Using satellite measurements from the NASA/German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), the researchers measured ice loss in all of Earth's land ice between 2003 and 2010, with particular emphasis on ...

CU-Boulder scientists use satellites to measure Earth's ice

9 Feb 2012

Scientists at the University of Colorado now have the most comprehensive view to date of changes in the cryosphere -- the ice-covered parts of the planet.