Princeton geoscientists report Greenland ice sheet melting rate is increasing
Tuesday, November 20, 2012 - 06:30
in Earth & Climate
(Phys.org)—Princeton geoscientists Christopher Harig and Frederik Simons have been applying new methods to study the amount of ice melt in the Greenland ice sheet. They report in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that the rate is approximately 200 billion tons annually and is rising at a rate of approximately 9 billion tons per year.