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Commentary
Nature Geoscience 2, 452–454 (1 July 2009) | doi:10.1038/ngeo567
Land waters and sea level
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Abstract
Understanding the causes of contemporary sea-level rise is a prerequisite for projecting future changes in sea level. The main contributions to the current rise in global mean sea level of about 2 to 3 mm yr|[minus]|1 are thought to come from the loss of land-based ice masses such as ice sheets, ice caps and mountain glaciers, and from the thermal expansion of the oceans.
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