Ocean melting of the Zachariae Isstrøm and Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden glaciers, northeast Greenland

• Main Authors: An, Lu, Rignot, Eric, Wood, Michael, Willis, Josh K, Mouginot, Jérémie, Khan, Shfaqat A
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2021
• Subjects: Climate Action; Life Below Water; Greenland; glaciology; sea level; ice-ocean interaction; climate; ice–ocean interaction; Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden; Zachariae Isstrøm; glacier; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3fw0w802

Zachariae Isstrøm (ZI) and Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden (79N) are marine-terminating glaciers in northeast Greenland that hold an ice volume equivalent to a 1.1-m global sea level rise. ZI lost its floating ice shelf, sped up, retreated at 650 m/y, and experienced a 5-gigaton/y mass loss. Glacier 79N has b...