The Greenland ice sheet experienced a massive melting event last week
8/5/21
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from The Washington Post,
8/5/21:
Last week, a heat wave spurred Greenland’s biggest melting event of the 2021 season so far. The Polar Portal, run by Danish research institutions, stated that enough water melted to cover all of Florida with two inches of water.
“It’s becoming more and more common to see these large melt events,” said Lauren Andrews, a glaciologist with NASA’s Global Modeling and Assimilation Office. “That’s because we generally have a warmer climate.”
This could have short-term and long-term implications for sea-level rise.
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