Sea Level Rise
The impacts of global warming on the global sea level are calculated by the Sea-Level Rise Model (SLRM), which has not been changed in IMAGE 2.4. In this model the total sea-level rise is influenced by thermal expansion of the oceans and by changing the net mass balance of glaciers and ice sheets. The most important ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are taken into account in SLRM.
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