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What is the global volume of land ice and how is it changing?
How much land ice is there in the World?
Most (99.5%) of the permanent ice volume in the world is locked up in
ice sheets and glaciers. The Antarctic Ice Sheet is the largest store of frozen freshwater; it would raise sea levels by 57.9 m (its “sea level equivalent”, or SLE) on full melting (
BedMachine). The
Antarctic Ice Sheet covers 8.3% of the Earth’s land surface.
The Greenland Ice Sheet has a sea level equivalent ice volume of 7.42 m, and covers 1.2% of the global land surface (
BedMachine).
Finally, glaciers and ice caps have a
sea level equivalent ice volume of 0.32 m, covering just 0.5% of the global land surface (Figure 1). There is a nice illustration of this
here.
Most (99.5%) of the permanent ice in the world is locked up in ice sheets and glaciers. The Antarctic Ice Sheet is the largest store of frozen freshwater; it would raise sea levels by 58.3 m on full melting. The Antarctic Ice Sheet covers 8.3% of the Earth’s land surface.The Greenland Ice Sheet...
www.antarcticglaciers.org