Thursday, November 11, 2010

eKos: Record Warming & Melting of Greenland's Ice Cap

by FishOutofWater

Melt water, Greenland summer 2010

Photo: Sarah Das, WHOI

Record high temperatures over Greenland in spring and summer brought record melting of Greenland's ice cap in 2010.


Cumulative net annual area changes for the 35 widest marine-terminating glacier outlets

Increasing flow of warm melt waters into cracks and crevasses may lead to ice cap destabilization, rapid outlet glacier flow, rapid ice cap decline and rapid sea level rise.



continued at Daily Kos....