Mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2018
@article{Team2020MassBO, title={Mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2018}, author={The Imbie Team}, journal={Nature}, year={2020}, volume={579}, pages={233-239} }
The Greenland Ice Sheet has been a major contributor to global sea-level rise in recent decades 1 , 2 , and it is expected to continue to be so 3 . Although increases in glacier flow 4 – 6 and surface melting 7 – 9 have been driven by oceanic 10 – 12 and atmospheric 13 , 14 warming, the magnitude and trajectory of the ice sheet’s mass imbalance remain uncertain. Here we compare and combine 26 individual satellite measurements of changes in the ice sheet’s volume, flow and gravitational…
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