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Cryosphere, oceans and sea level

The frozen and ocean parts of the climate system: Himalayan glaciers and glacial lakes, sea ice and ice sheets, permafrost, ocean warming and acidification, and sea level rise. Prelims has asked which rivers rise from which Himalayan glaciers, and about the source and course of the Teesta.

Foundation note: Ice, oceans and sea level: the mechanisms

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