Increasing ocean temperature threatens Greenland’s ice sheet
UCI and NASA JPL scientists study impact of warm, salty water beneath glaciers
January 25, 2021 — Scientists at the University of California, Irvine and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have for the first time quantified how warming coastal waters are impacting individual glaciers in Greenland’s fjords. Their work is the subject of a study published recently in Science Advances.
Working under the auspices of the Oceans Melting Greenland mission for the past five years, the researchers...
