New Study Shows that Sea Level Rise Resulting From Collapse of West Antarctic Ice Sheet Would be Non-Uniform; Some Regions to See Levels Much Higher Than Previously Predicted
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 6, 2009
This mass is sufficient to exert a substantial gravitational attraction, researchers say, pulling water toward it. An ice sheet exerts a gravitational attraction on the nearby ocean and thus draws water toward it. If the ice sheet melts, this attraction will be reduced, and water will migrate away from the ice sheet.
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