Extended Data Fig. 1: Reference ice sheet state. | Nature Climate Change

Extended Data Fig. 1: Reference ice sheet state.

From: Ocean warming as a trigger for irreversible retreat of the Antarctic ice sheet

Extended Data Fig. 1: Reference ice sheet state.

a) Observed rates of thickness change (dh/dt) between 2012-201635. b) Ice sheet modelled rates of thickness change (dh/dt) after a 5-year control simulation using the NEMO4 reference ocean model melt rates and the Mmat parameterization. c) Ice volume loss in mm sea-level equivalent (SLE), during the first 10 years of all 12 control simulations (negative volume loss = sea-level rise). Line styles denote the choice of melt rate parameterization (see Extended Fig. 4). Black line is observed rates of ice loss based on 0.7 ± 0.07 mm/yr between 2009 and 2017 (from5 and see Table S1).

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