2010 spike in Greenland ice loss lifted bedrock, GPS reveals

Friday, December 9, 2011 - 15:30 in Earth & Climate

An unusually hot melting season in 2010 accelerated ice loss in southern Greenland by 100 billion tons – and large portions of the island's bedrock rose an additional quarter of an inch in response. That's the finding from a network of nearly 50 GPS stations planted along the Greenland coast to measure the bedrock's natural response to the ever-diminishing weight of ice above it.

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