Assertion: glacier | /r/CapableOf | contribute much melt water
Facets:
value: between 2009
type: TEMPORAL
value: as the ice sheets
type: LOCATION
value: between 2003
type: TEMPORAL
value: approximately
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: (p. 852) synthesize data from glacialogical inventories to find that glaciers in the Arctic, Canada, Alaska, coastal Greenland, the southern Andes, and high-mountain Asia contribute approximately as much melt water as the ice sheets themselves: 260 billion tons per year between 2003 and 2009, accounting for about 30% of the observed sea-level rise during that period.