The Human Impacts Database

A collection of useful numbers for quantifying the impacts of the human presence on Earth.


Quantity Value HuID Source Type
Southern Hemisphere sea ice extent 1.1502 × 107 km2 15616 Fetterer, F., K. Knowles, W. …
Southern Hemisphere sea ice area 8.627 × 106 km2 25465 Fetterer, F., K. Knowles, W. …
Global glacier mass loss (2.78 ± 1.13) × 1014 kg / yr 32459 IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate …
Mass loss (anomaly) from Greenland Ice Sheet since 2002 -(5.122 ± 0.051) × 1015 kg 44746 Wiese, D. N., D.-N. Yuan, …
Annual Northern Hemisphere sea ice extent loss -5.41 × 1010 m2 / yr 47740 Fetterer, F., K. Knowles, W. …
Arctic glacier mass loss (2.13 ± 0.29) × 1014 kg / yr 65272 IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate …
Annual Northern Hemisphere sea ice area loss -2.45 × 1010 m2 / yr 66277 Fetterer, F., K. Knowles, W. …
Northern Hemisphere sea ice extent 1.0549 × 107 km2 70188 Fetterer, F., K. Knowles, W. …
Annual average Arctic sea ice extent loss (5.52 ± 0.17) × 1010 m2 / yr 70818 Josefino C. Comiso, Walter N. …
Northern Hemisphere sea ice area 8.816 × 106 km2 73040 Fetterer, F., K. Knowles, W. …
Mountain glacier mass loss (1.23 ± 0.24) × 1014 kg / yr 74329 IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate …
Mass loss (anomaly) from Antarctic Ice Sheet since 2002 -(2.760 ± 0.063) × 1015 kg 88530 Wiese, D. N., D.-N. Yuan, …
Annual arctic sea ice volume loss (3 ± 1) × 1011 m3 / yr 89520 Schweiger, A., Lindsay, R., Zhang, …
Annual Antarctic ice sheet mass loss -(1.52 ± 0.39) × 1014 kg / yr 93137 Wiese, D. N., D.-N. Yuan, …
Annual Greenland ice sheet mass loss -(2.75 ± 0.21) × 1014 kg / yr 95798 Wiese, D. N., D.-N. Yuan, …