New paper finds East Antarctic ice sheet will have negative contribution to sea levels over next 200 years – Published The Cryosphere
Paper 'studies one of the largest ice shelfs in East Antarctica and predicts increased accumulation of ice on the surface of the ice shelf will have a net contribution of decreasing sea levels over the 21st and 22nd centuries.
According to the authors: "Overall, the increased accumulation computed by the atmosphere models outweighs ice stream acceleration so that the net contribution to sea level rise is negative."
Furthermore, the authors predict the grounding line of this ice shelf system will have "little grounding line retreat" and thus it very unlikely this ice sheet will break off from the continent.
