(Table 1) Mass loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet

• Main Authors: Rignot, Eric, Kanagaratnam, Pannir
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2006
• Subjects: Area; Glacier; Glacier discharge; Ice; flux; Identification; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; Mass balance; ORDINAL NUMBER; Surface mass balance; Greenland; glacier; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.786385; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.786385

Using satellite radar interferometry observations of Greenland, we detected widespread glacier acceleration below 66° north between 1996 and 2000, which rapidly expanded to 70° north in 2005. Accelerated ice discharge in the west and particularly in the east doubled the ice sheet mass deficit in the...