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Figure 13: The water cycle with respect to polar ice and sea level. Future changes in ice sheet mass balance will be a complex function of accumulation and melting as well as dynamic ice sheet behavior. Sea level response is still not well understood. ICESat observations will help answer important questions about trends that affect the ice mass balance and sea level change.

Credit: NASA.

Figure 12: Water vapor measurement using Raman lidar.

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