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University of Copenhagen - Niels Bohr Institute

Global Sea Level

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The melting of Greenland contributes to the global sea level, but the loss of mass also means that the ice sheet's own gravitational field weakens and thus does not attract the surrounding sea as strongly. This means that the sea will fall up to 2,000 km away from the ice sheet, and that the sea level in Northern Europe is not particularly sensitive to the melting of Greenland.

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(Credit: Grinsted, Jevrejeva, Riva, and Dahl-Jensen)

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(Credit: Grinsted, Jevrejeva, Riva, and Dahl-Jensen)

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