US EditionESA and NASA satellites deliver first joint picture of Greenland Ice Sheet melting
- Academics from Northumbria University are part of an international research team tracking changes in the thickness of the Greenland Ice Sheet using satellite data from CryoSat-2 and IceSat-2.
- The Greenland Ice Sheet thinned by 1.2 meters on average between 2010 and 2023, according to measurements from the satellites.
- The ice sheet shrank by 2,347 cubic kilometers over 13 years, which is enough to fill Africa's Lake Victoria.
- The biggest changes in ice volume occurred in 2012 and 2019, with losses exceeding 400 cubic kilometers each year during extremely hot summer temperatures.
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The Greenland ice sheet is losing volume - that is well known. But now new analyses by scientists reveal the full extent of the ice melting.
The Greenland ice sheet shrunk by an average of 196 cubic kilometers per year from September 2010 to August 2022. The annual melt volume fluctuated between four and 464 cubic kilometers. For the study, the scientists compared altitude measurements from the CryoSat-2 satellite missions from the European Space Agency ESA and ICESat-2 from the US space agency NASA for the first time. CryoSat-2 measures the height of the ice on the Greenland Ice She…
The Greenland ice sheet shrank by an average of 196 cubic kilometers per year from September 2010 to August 2022. This is shown by new measurements. The Greenland ice sheet is - after the Antarctic ice sheet - the second largest extensive glaciation on Earth.
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The Greenland ice sheet is the second largest ice sheet on Earth. According to researchers, it melts by almost 200 cubic kilometers every year. If it were to melt completely, the sea level could rise by around seven meters.
The second largest ice sheet on Earth is shrinking. Researchers have now measured how much with the help of satellites.
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