What Responsibility Does The Ocean Have In Greenland's Glacier Melt?
Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - 01:40
in Earth & Climate
The Greenland Ice Sheet is huge, a 1.7 million-square-kilometer, 2-mile thick layer of ice that covers Greenland. In the last 40 years, ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet has increased four-fold, contributing to global sea level rise. Some of the melting at the surface of the ice sheet is due to a warmer atmosphere but the ocean's role in driving ice loss largely has been a mystery. A new paper in Nature Geoscience sheds new light on the connection between the ocean and Greenland's outlet glaciers, and provides important data for future estimates of how fast the ice sheet might melt and how much mass could be lost. read more