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A Look Back and Ahead at Greenland’s Changing Climate

By Guest PostFebruary 13, 2014Environmentarctic anomalies, changing climate, climate models project, fiamma straneo, fjords, greenland, greenland ice sheet, ice loss, ice ocean boundary, MIT, natural climate variability, north atlantic, north atlantic ocean, ocean warming, patrick heimbach, runoff, sea surface, sea-level rise, submarine melting, whoi

Over the past two decades, ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet increased four-fold contributing to one-quarter of global sea level rise. However, the chain of events and physical processes that contributed to it has remained elusive. One likely trigger for the speed up and retreat of glaciers that contributed to this ice loss is ocean warming.

A review paper by physical oceanographers Fiamma Straneo at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Patrick Heimbach at MIT published in Nature explains what scientists have learned from their research on and around Greenland over the past 20 years and describes the measurements and technology needed to continue to move the science forward. (more…)

On The Front Lines

UD scientist sees Arctic ice loss firsthand

The extent of sea ice in the Arctic has reached a record low, according to data released Aug. 26 by the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).

A University of Delaware marine scientist can confirm some of that ice loss firsthand. In a short video he produced, Andreas Muenchow, aboard the Canadian icebreaker Henry Larsen, shows the ice-free sea off Petermann Fjord that he and his colleagues were sailing in — an area that for ages had been covered by floating ice shelves. (more…)

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A Look Back and Ahead at Greenland’s Changing Climate

On The Front Lines