Clearest evidence yet of polar ice losses

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An international team of satellite experts has produced the most accurate assessment of ice losses from Antarctica and Greenland to date, ending 20 years of uncertainty.

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/3336/clearest_evidence_yet_of_polar_ice_losses

[MysticStrummer]

Ending 20 years of uncertainty and beginning another decade of denial.

[Little Fish]

Ending 20 years of uncertainty

"TRF errors readily manifest as spurious sea level rise accelerations"

"The lack of a stable TRF affects most if not all satellite programs used in this new Shepherd et al paper ‘A reconciled estimate of ice sheet mass balance‘ including ICESAT and GRACE, upon which the paper heavily relies."

"The lack of a stable TRF puts all of the space based geodetic data into question, thus the conclusions of the Shepherd et al paper are essentially worthless at the moment, since there isn’t any good way to remove the TRF error from the data with post processing. If there were, the GRASP team at NASA JPL wouldn’t be calling for a new satellite platform and mission to solve the problem"

"The uncertainty is quite clear in Table 1, which has error ranges larger than the data in some cases:"

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Edited December 5, 2012 by Little Fish