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Figure 48. Estimated sources of global rise in sea level from 1993 through 2003, estimated from ocean thermal expansion (steric rise) and as meltwater from non-ice-sheet glaciers and from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets (2.83±0.7 mm a-1). Satellite data and tide-gauge observations indicate a higher mean rise (3.1±0.7 mm a-1) during the same period. Modified from Bentley and others (2007, p. 157, fig. 6C.4).