Accelerated Melting Of Continental Icepacks Is Major Reason For Rise In Sea Level Between 2003 And 2008

ScienceDaily (Dec. 2, 2008) — Researchers at the Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales ⁽¹⁾ (CNRS/Université Toulouse 3/CNES/IRD) and at a subsidiary of CNES (CLS) ⁽²⁾ have discovered that the accelerated melting of continental icepacks is the major reason for the rise in sea level over the 2003 to 2008 period, something which has minimized the effect of thermal expansion of seawater.

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