Greenland-wide accelerated retreat of peripheral glaciers in the twenty-first century

The long-term response of Greenland's peripheral glaciers to climate change is widely undocumented. Here we use historical aerial photographs and satellite imagery to document length fluctuations of >1,000 land-terminating peripheral glaciers in Greenland over more than a century. We find th...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Nature Climate Change
Other Authors: Larocca, Laura J. (author), Twining–Ward, M. (author), Axford, Y. (author), Schweinsberg, A. D. (author), Larsen, S. H. (author), Westergaard–Nielsen, A. (author), Luetzenburg, G. (author), Briner, J. P. (author), Kjeldsen, K. K. (author), Bjørk, A. A. (author)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2023
Subjects:
Greenland
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01855-6
Description
Summary:The long-term response of Greenland's peripheral glaciers to climate change is widely undocumented. Here we use historical aerial photographs and satellite imagery to document length fluctuations of >1,000 land-terminating peripheral glaciers in Greenland over more than a century. We find that their rate of retreat over the last two decades is double that of the twentieth century, indicating a ubiquitous transition into a new, accelerated state of downwasting. NA18NWS4620043B

Similar Items