Nature Geoscience, 03 February 2025<\/p>\n
New satellite mapping models have revealed increases in both the size and depth of large cracks on the Greenland ice sheet from 2016 to 2021. These cracks progressively weaken and reduce the stability of the ice sheet. This study documented how rising ocean temperatures have sped up the flow of the ice sheet into the ocean, which deepens these cracks by drawing liquid water and heat into the ice, feeding into a cycle that speeds up the ice sheet’s melt. This may leads to increased ice loss and related sea-level rise. Such high resolution ice sheet mapping will enable more accurate and precise sea level rise projections, thus informing stronger mitigation policies and allowing communities to better plan and adapt.<\/p>\n
Hela uppsatsen: https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41561-024-01636-6<\/a> Nature Geoscience, 03 February 2025 New satellite mapping models have revealed increases in both the size and depth of large cracks on the Greenland ice sheet from 2016 to 2021. These cracks progressively weaken and reduce the stability of the ice sheet. This study documented how rising ocean temperatures have sped up the flow of […]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryosphere-capsules"],"modified_by":"Pam Pearson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502","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=6502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6514,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502\/revisions\/6514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNews coverage by Durham University: https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-01-greenland-ice-sheet-rapidly-response.html<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"