Climate change: warm bath for an ice sheet
Greenland is losing ice through glaciers that flow into deep fjords. New observations highlight the important fjord processes that supply warm ocean waters to the melting glaciers, and thereby affect Greenland's contribution to sea-level rise.
| Published in: | Nature Geoscience |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Nature Publishing Group
2010
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| Online Access: | http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/10529/ http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v3/n3/pdf/ngeo801.pdf |
| Summary: | Greenland is losing ice through glaciers that flow into deep fjords. New observations highlight the important fjord processes that supply warm ocean waters to the melting glaciers, and thereby affect Greenland's contribution to sea-level rise. |
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