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Greenland Ice Sheet on a Downward Slide
posted by Satri
on Friday October 20, @09:46AM
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from the Greenland-going-back-to-green dept.
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NASA EO news runs a story about satellite data revealing Greenland ice sheet clearly disapearing. From the article: "[...] scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., report that Greenland's low coastal regions lost 155 gigatons (41 cubic miles) of ice per year between 2003 and 2005 from excess melting and icebergs, while the high-elevation interior gained 54 gigatons (14 cubic miles) annually from excess snowfall. [...] The study is based on an innovative use of data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite that reveals detailed information about where and when the Greenland ice mass has changed."
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