The new paper, Four decades of Antarctic Ice Sheet mass balance from 1979–2017, by Eric Rignot, et. el (PNAS 1/14/19) states
The total mass loss from Antarctica increased from 40 ± 9 Gt/y in the 11-y time period 1979–1990 to 50 ± 14 Gt/y in 1989–2000, 166 ± 18 Gt/y in 1999–2009, and 252 ± 26 Gt/y in 2009–2017, that is, by a factor 6.
An interesting fact from the paper:
Antarctica contains an ice volume that translates into a sea-level equivalent (SLE) of 57.2 m.
Note: 52.2m is about 188 feet. The graph with caption here is from the paper. The Washington Post has a summary of the paper in the article Ice loss from Antarctica has sextupled since the 1970s, new research finds by Chris Mooney and Brady Dennis (1/14/19) and notes
It takes about 360 billion tons of ice to produce one millimeter of global sea-level rise.
Based on the last two quotes, How much ice is there on Antarctica? NASA’s Vital Signs of the Planet has Antarctica Ice data on their Ice sheets page.
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