{"id":2033,"date":"2021-02-22T16:46:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T16:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iccinet.org\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2022-07-12T15:24:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T15:24:04","slug":"major-infrastructure-damage-in-northwestern-greenland-due-to-accelerating-glacier-melt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/major-infrastructure-damage-in-northwestern-greenland-due-to-accelerating-glacier-melt\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Infrastructure Damage in Northwestern Greenland due to Accelerating Glacier Melt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Journal of Glaciology, February 17<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In northwestern Greenland, rapid increases in meltwater from Qaanaaq Glacier resulted in two abnormally intense floods during the summers of 2015 and 2016. \u00a0The high discharge associated with the 2015 flood, over three times higher than normal from this glacier, came from intense melt caused by warm temperatures and strong winds.\u00a0 In contrast, the 2016 flood resulted from heavy rainfall (90 mm a day) that led to a peak in glacier discharge nearly 7 times normal, at 20 cubic meters of water per second. \u00a0Both floods caused extensive road damage, cutting off the Qaanaaq settlement from the regional airport; indicating the threat to local Greenland and Arctic communities from extreme weather events associated with continued global warming.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/journal-of-glaciology\/article\/flood-events-caused-by-discharge-from-qaanaaq-glacier-northwestern-greenland\/A3853DB925041FCE9643460F24349CFC\">https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/journal-of-glaciology\/article\/flood-events-caused-by-discharge-from-qaanaaq-glacier-northwestern-greenland\/A3853DB925041FCE9643460F24349CFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Compiled by Amy Imdieke.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journal of Glaciology, February 17 In northwestern Greenland, rapid increases in meltwater from Qaanaaq Glacier resulted in two abnormally intense floods during the summers of 2015 and 2016. \u00a0The high discharge associated with the 2015 flood, over three times higher than normal from this glacier, came from intense melt caused by warm temperatures and strong [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[152,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryosphere-capsules","category-latest-research"],"modified_by":"Pam Pearson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2034,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions\/2034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}