Graph-Dashboard: Glacier Mass Balance (Yearly)

Ice loss relative to 1970 for the glaciers in the World Glacier Monitoring Service's climate reference network. Glacier mass balance is the annual balance between how much snow accumulates on a glacier and how much ice is lost through melting, sublimation (evaporation), or iceberg calving. Including the preliminary values for 2022/23, these glaciers have lost more than 26 meters of water equivalent, which is roughly the same as slicing a 94-foot slab off the top of each glacier in the network. NOAA Climate.gov image, based on data from the WGMS.