2008-01-15

Extreme Ice Melt In Greenland

University of Sheffield, U. Colorado, Danish Meteorological Institute, NASA, U. Maryland
Lead author: Edward Hanna
Where published: Journal of Climate

recent warm summers have caused the most extreme Greenland ice melting in 50 years... summer 2003 was exceptionally warm around the margins of the Greenland Ice Sheet, which resulted in the second-highest meltwater running off from the Ice Sheet of the last 50 years. Summer 2005 experienced a record-high melt, which was very recently superseded in summer 2007

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