Feb. 2012 study from American Geophysical Union says no Antarctic ice melting in past 30 yrs.

World's largest body of frozen water remains frozen. Sea levels in no danger of rising from Antarctic Ice melt via study of past 30 years.

"Copyright 2012 by the American Geophysical Union.
0094-8276/12/2011GL050713," (see bottom of page 1)

Feb. 21, 2012, "A new, high-resolution surface mass balance map of Antarctica (1979–2010) based on regional atmospheric climate modeling," J. T. M. Lenaerts,1 M. R. van den Broeke,1 W. J. van de Berg,1 E. van Meijgaard,2 and P. Kuipers Munneke1, American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Research Letters

Received 17 January 2012; accepted 21 January 2012; published 21 February 2012.

page 4. "3.4. Trend

[15] We found no significant trend in the 1979–2010 ice
sheet integrated SMB components, which confirms the
results from Monaghan et al. [2006]....

Conclusion

No significant trend in the ice sheet-integrated SMB is found
over the period 1979–2010, and

• only (insignificant) trends exist regionally.

Snowfall is characterized by strong interannual
(s = 114 Gt y 1) and intra-annual variability (s =
30 Gt mo 1). Snowdrift sublimation is the main ablation
process and shows little interannual variability (s = 9 Gt y 1).
[17]

Acknowledgments. We thank two anonymous reviewers for their
valuable comments. This work was supported by funding from the ice2sea
programme from the European Union 7th Framework Programme, grant
226375. Ice2sea contribution 061.
[18] The Editor thanks David Bromwich and an anonymous reviewer"...




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