Greenland’s icecap loses stability | Climate News Network
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By Tim Radford
Greenland is losing ice from part of its territory at an accelerating rate, suggesting that the edges of the entire ice cap may be unstable.
LONDON, 13 April – Greenland – the largest terrestrial mass of ice in the northern hemisphere – may be melting a little faster than anyone had guessed.
http://www.climatenewsnetwork.net/wp-content/uploads/1024px-Jakobshaven_calving_front_7139897739.jpg A region of the Greenland ice sheet that had been thought to be stable is undergoing what glaciologists call “dynamic thinning”. That is because the meltwater from the ice sheet is getting into the sea, according to a study in Nature Climate Change.