Long term satellite record of Arctic sea ice thickness reveals slower sea ice loss than expected while confirming present day ocean mass changes and their contribution to sea level rise


Benoit Meyssignac1, Kevin Guerreiro2, William Llovel3, Sara Fleury4, Sarah G Purkey5, Florence Birol6, Matthieu Chevallier7, Antoine Laforge8 and Florent Garnier6, (1)CNES, LEGOS, Toulouse, France, (2)LEGOS, Université de Toulouse, CNES, CNRS, IRD, UPS, Paris, France, (3)CNRS, Plouzané, France, (4)CNRS - Legos, Toulouse, France, (5)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States, (6)LEGOS, Toulouse, France, (7)Météo-France Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex 01, France, (8)Legos, Toulouse, France