2019年6月17日 · Jakobshavn Glacier in western Greenland is notorious for being the world’s fastest-moving glacier. It is also one of the most active, discharging a tremendous amount of ice from the Greenland Ice Sheet into Ilulissat Icefjord and adjacent Disko Bay—with implications for …

2024年2月13日 · An estimated 11,000 sq miles or 28,707 sq kilometers of Greenland's ice sheet and glaciers have melted over the last three decades, according to a major analysis of historic satellite records.

Flow rates of ice into the ocean in 2024 were substantially above the 1991-2020 average, despite moderate slowing since 2022. The Greenland Ice Sheet contains the equivalent of 7.4 meters of global sea level rise, currently frozen atop the world’s largest island (Morlighem et al. 2017).

2019年4月23日 · Greenland's ice sheet is melting six times faster than it was in the 1980s. And all that meltwater is directly raising sea levels.

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.

2019年3月25日 · NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) project has revealed Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier, the island’s biggest, is actually growing, at least at its edge.

2024年2月13日 · An estimated 11,000 sq miles or 28,707 sq kilometers of Greenland's ice sheet and glaciers have melted over the last three decades, according to a major analysis of historic satellite records.