Recent ice mass loss in northwestern Greenland : Results of the GRENE Greenland project and overview of the ArCS project

• Main Authors: Sugiyama, Shin, Tsutaki, Shun, Sakakibara, Daiki, Saito, Jun, Ohashi, Yoshihiko, Katayama, Naoki, Podolskiy, Evgeny, Matoba, Sumito, Funk, Martin, Genco, Riccardo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 低温科学第75巻編集委員会
• Subjects: Greenland; glacier; ice sheet; ice cap; ice-ocean interaction; Arctic; Bowdoin; Qaanaaq; Climate change; Ice cap; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2115/65005; https://doi.org/10.14943/lowtemsci.75.1

The Greenland ice sheet and peripheral ice caps are rapidly losing mass. This mass change has been captured by satellite remote sensing, but more detailed investigations are necessary to understand the spatiotemporal variations and mechanism of the ice loss. It has increased particularly in northwes...