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Between 1992 and 2017, Greenland lost 3.8 trillion tonnes of ice. This corresponds to a 10.6 mm contribution to global sea-level rise – about seven times faster than expected. The Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise (IMBIE) compared and combined data from 11 satellites – including ESA’s ERS-1, ERS-2, Envisat and CryoSat missions, as well as the EU’s Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 missions – with regional climate models to provide an up-to-date assessment of changes across the Greenland ice sheet.
Read more: Greenland ice loss much faster than expected