Sentences with phrase «entire surface of the ice sheet»
And on July 11 - 12 last year, gusts of warm air caused melting on virtually the entire surface of the ice sheet.
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The drought that is devastating California and much of the West has dried the region so much that 240 gigatons worth of surface and groundwater have been lost, roughly the equivalent to a 3.9 - inch layer of water over the entire West, or the annual loss of mass from the Greenland Ice Sheet, according to the study.
The summer of 2012 brought Greenland far more extensive melt than anything observed in the satellite record: in July 2012, surface melt extended over nearly the entire ice sheet.
An estimated 97 percent of the ice sheet surface melted on July 11 and 12, 2012, and virtually the entire ice sheet surface melted at some point in July 2012.
Shfaqat Khan from the Technical University of Denmark and colleagues used more than 30 years of surface elevation measurements of the entire ice sheet to discover that overall loss is accelerating.
The melt of virtually the entire surface of the Greenland ice sheet the other year is worrying.
This summer, in fact, virtually the entire surface veneer of the Greenland ice sheet melted in a matter of days, something that Ohio State researcher Jason Box, who worked on the CALIPSO research, says could start happening every summer.