Antarctic Wilkes Land-Queen Mary Region Sees 100 Billion Tonne Ice Mass Increase
By P Gosselin on 7. May 2025
Recent studies shows that the Arctic and Antarctic have cooled over the past 2 decades, and that ice mass has gained in the Antarctic Wilkes Land-Queen Mary Land region.
Hat-tip: TKP
The study, “Spatiotemporal mass change rate analysis from 2002 to 2023 over the Antarctic Ice Sheet and four glacier basins in Wilkes-Queen Mary Land” in the journal Science China Earth Sciences authored by Wei Wang et al looked at the AIS mass change series from April 2002 to December 2023 with the focus on four glacier basins in the Wilkes Land-Queen Mary Land (WL-QML) region: Denman, Moscow, Totten, and Vincennes Bay glacier basins.
Chart source: TKP
Recent ice mass growth
In the period of 2002-2010, there was moderate ice loss of -73.79 ± 56.27 gigatons per year, which contributed to 0.20 ± 0.16 mm per year to global sea level rise.
From 2011-2020 there was almost twice as much ice loss of -142.06 ± 56.12 gigatons per year, contributing 0.39 ± 0.15 mm per year to global sea level rise.
But in the period of 2021-2023, there was a surprising a mass gain of 107.79 ± 74.90 gigatons per year that offset global sea level rise by 0.30 ± 0.21 mm per year.
Cooling at rate of 5°C per century since early 1980s
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