Globally, sea levels are going up, in part because of the contribution of the world's diminishing ice fields. This is well known.
But the Nature Geoscience report is the first to show the direct consequences to sea surface height (SSH) around Antarctica itself.
While the satellite data record indicates there has been a general upward trend in SSH in the Southern Ocean south of 50 degrees of up to 2.4mm per year, those satellites also indicate a more rapid rise in waters sitting on the continental shelf.