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Aug 14, 2024 · Ice Sheets Today offers the latest satellite data and scientific analyses on surface melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet in the Northern Hemisphere and Antarctic Ice Sheet in the Southern Hemisphere. Surface melt on each ice sheet results from a combination of daily weather conditions and the amount of solar energy absorbed by its snow and ice.
The Greenland ice sheet is an ice sheet which forms the second largest body of ice in the world. It is an average of 1.67 km (1.0 mi) thick, and over 3 km (1.9 mi) thick at its maximum. [2]
Jan 17, 2024 · From 1985 to 2022, as icebergs fell into the ocean at an accelerating rate, the Greenland Ice Sheet shed about 1,140 billion tons (1,034 billion metric tons) – one-fifth more mass than previously estimated.
Ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet has immediate and global influence on sea level rise, with impacts including coastal erosion, saltwater inundation of freshwater resources, and increased flooding frequency.
Aug 16, 2024 · The Greenland Ice Sheet is a single ice sheet or glacier covering about 80 percent of the island of Greenland. It is the largest ice mass in the Northern Hemisphere, globally second in size to only the Antarctic ice mass.
Nov 21, 2012 · The Greenland Ice Sheet extends about 1.7 million square kilometers (656,000 square miles), covering most of the island of Greenland, three times the size of Texas. Ice sheets contain enormous quantities of frozen water.
The Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) is the second-largest contributor of sea-level rise (SLR), after thermal expansion (Zemp et al. 2019). Ice mass loss from the GrIS affects environments and societies worldwide through coastal erosion, saltwater intrusion, habitat loss, increased flooding, and, in some locations, permanent inundation.
