Monitored by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Eustatic sea level change
is increasing, currently 3.00mm per year.
If all ice fields melted sea level would rise 70m.
Causes
• Thermal expansion of water
Global warming increases surface temperatures and decreases density. This causes water
volume to increase.
• Glacier melting
Increasing air temperature melts glaciers which flow into oceans
• Melting of Greenland + Antarctic ice sheets
Margins ablating and thinning despite central thickening
