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7 sty 2022 · 2021 marked the 25th year in a row in which the key Greenland ice sheet lost more mass during the melting season, than it gained during the winter, according to a new UN-endorsed report issued...
17 sty 2024 · Icebergs have tumbled from Greenland’s glaciers for thousands of years as part of a natural cycle that typically balanced glacier growth in the winter with melting and retreat in the summer. The new study finds that ice retreat has far outpaced growth throughout the 21st century.
13 paź 2022 · Climate Change. The Greenland ice sheet may be even more sensitive to the warming climate than scientists previously thought. A new study finds that rising air temperatures are working...
18 paź 2023 · Greenland’s massive ice sheet, which is thawing because of human-induced climate change, could be saved from complete meltdown even if global temperatures soar past key international...
20 kwi 2023 · The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, which hold almost all of the world’s freshwater ice, are shrinking at a frighteningly rapid pace, according to a report on Thursday from a team of...
Ice sheets gain mass from net snow accumulation and lose mass through meltwater runoff and solid ice discharge. The sum of accumulation and runoff is termed surface mass balance (SMB) and is primarily responsive to air temperature, snow cover, albedo, and bare-ice area.
18 cze 2024 · Ice Sheets Today offers the latest satellite data and scientific analyses on surface melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet in the Northern Hemisphere and Antarctic Ice Sheet in the Southern Hemisphere. Surface melt on each ice sheet results from a combination of daily weather conditions and the amount of solar energy absorbed by its snow and ice.
