«Our evidence points to Jupiter,» said Ryan Cloutier, a PhD candidate in U of T's Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics and lead author of a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal. (sciencedaily.com)
«We knew that these warm waters were reaching the fjords, but we did not know if they were reaching the glaciers or how the melting was occurring,» said Straneo, lead author of the new study on fjord dynamics. (thaindian.com)
However, during winter field surveys over the last decade, lake ice has typically only grown to 1.5 meters (5 feet) thick, and has been as thin as 1.2 meters (4 feet),» said Christopher Arp, research assistant professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Water and Environmental Research Center and lead author of the new study accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. (sciencedaily.com)