Talk:Sea level equation

is it really simple?

From a BBC article on the measurement of total ice melting off of Greenland and Antarctica -- the two major ice melt areas above sea level  (Arctic ice does not count, because it is in the water. )

So from the article,-- I read that a year of ice melt from both areas might total about 500 cubic km of water.

"Earth's two big ice sheets are now dumping roughly 500 cu km of ice in the oceans annually."

And checking google I find that the area of the Earths ocean are 165,250,000 square kilometers.

The problem I write now may be written:

   How much sea level rise will come from 500 cu km of water when it is added to global ocean area of 165,250,000 sq km?

or said another way,

If the area of the earth's oceans totals 165,250,000 square kilometers, then if we spread 500 cubic kilometers of water evenly across that area, how deep would it be? Rpauli (talk) 04:47, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Yep. 3 mm/a, very close to the observed value. Only, sea water also expands, esp. in the tropics. And then there are glaciers and ice caps elsewhere. 86.114.205.20 (talk) 10:59, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

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