Ocean forcing drives glacier retreat in Greenland

• Published in: Science Advances
• Main Authors: Wood, Michael, Rignot, Eric, Fenty, Ian, An, Lu, Bjørk, Anders, van den Broeke, Michiel, Cai, Cilan, Kane, Emily, Menemenlis, Dimitris, Millan, Romain, Morlighem, Mathieu, Mouginot, Jeremie, Noël, Brice, Scheuchl, Bernd, Velicogna, Isabella, Willis, Josh K., Zhang, Hong
• Other Authors: National Science Foundation, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Netherlands Earth System Science Centre, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, French National Research Agency, NASA Postdoctoal Program, Univesities Space Research Association, NASA Physical Oceanography Program, NASA Modelling Analysis and Prediction, NASA Cryospheric Science
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2021
• Subjects: Greenland; glacier; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba7282; https://syndication.highwire.org/content/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aba7282; https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.aba7282

Many Greenland glaciers have been attacked by the ocean from below and, in turn, contributed to sea-level rise from the ice sheet.