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Greenland ice melted in four days… The Greenland ice sheet melted at a faster rate this month than at any other time in recorded history, with virtually the entire ice sheet showing signs of thaw. The rapid melting over just four days was captured by three satellites. It has stunned and alarmed scientists, and deepened fears about the pace and future consequences of climate change. In a statement posted on Nasa’s website on Tuesday, scientists admitted the satellite data was so striking they thought at first there had to be a mistake. “This was so extraordinary that at first I questioned the result: was this real or was it due to a data error?” Son Nghiem of Nasa’s jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena said in the release. He consulted with several colleagues, who confirmed his findings. Dorothy Hall, who studies the surface temperature of Greenland at Nasa’s space flight centre in Greenbelt, Maryland, confirmed that the area experienced unusually high temperatures in mid-July, and that there was widespread melting over the surface of the ice sheet. Climatologists Thomas Mote, at the University of Georgia, and Marco Tedesco, of the City University of New York, also confirmed the melt recorded by the satellites. However, scientists were still coming to grips with the shocking images on Tuesday. “I think it’s fair to say that this is unprecedented,” Jay Zwally, a glaciologist at Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center, told the Guardian. The set of images released by Nasa on Tuesday show a rapid thaw between 8 July and 12 July. Within that four-day period, measurements from three satellites showed a swift expansion of the area of melting ice, from about 40% of the ice sheet surface to 97%. Zwally, who has made almost yearly trips to the Greenland ice sheet for more than three decades, said he had never seen such a rapid melt. About half of Greenland’s surface ice sheet melts during a typical summer, but Zwally said he and other scientists had been recording an acceleration of that melting process over the last few decades. This year his team had to rebuild their camp, at Swiss Station, when the snow and ice supports melted. He said he was most surprised to see indications in the images of melting even around the area of Summit Station, which is about two miles above sea level. It was the second unusual event in Greenland in a matter of days, after an iceberg the size of Manhattan broke off from the Petermann Glacier. But the rapid melt was viewed as more serious. “If you look at the 8 July image that might be the maximum extent of warming you would see in the summer,” Zwally noted. “There have been periods when melting might have occurred at higher elevations briefly – maybe for a day or so – but to have it cover the whole of Greenland like this is unknown, certainly in the time of satellite records.” Lora Koenig, another Goddard glaciologist, told Nasa similar rapid melting occurs about every 150 years. But she warned there were wide-ranging potential implications from this year’s thaw. “If we continue to observe melting events like this in upcoming years, it will be worrisome.” she told Nasa. The most immediate consequences are sea level rise and a further warming of the Arctic. In the centre of Greenland, the ice remains up to 3,000 metres deep. On the edges, however, the ice is much, much thinner and has been melting into the sea. The melting ice sheet is a significant factor in sea level rise. Scientists attribute about one-fifth of the annual sea level rise, which is about 3mm every year, to the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. In this instance of this month’s extreme melting, Mote said there was evidence of a heat dome over Greenland: or an unusually strong ridge of warm air. The dome is believed to have moved over Greenland on 8 July, lingering until 16 July. Via:rawstory Similar Posts:
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Neobično velika površina ledenog pokrivača na Grenlandu otopila se ovog mjeseca, izvijestila je NASA, javlja BBC. Znanstvenici kažu da se nikad prije viđeno otapanje dogodilo na velikoj površini koja je iz satelita promatrana zadnja tri desetljeća. Topljenje leda dogodilo se čak i na najhladnijoj i najvišoj točki Grenlanda, stanici Summit. Odmrznuto područje povećalo se sa 40% površine ledenog pokrivača na čak 97% u svega četiri dana počevši od 8. srpnja. Iako se oko polovica leda na Grenlandu otopi tijekom ljetnih mjeseci, brzina i razmjer ovogodišnjeg odmrzavanja iznenadila je znanstvenike, koji fenomen opisuju iznimno neobičnim. NASA je priopćila da je gotovo cijeli ledeni pokrivač na Grenlandu, od tankih obalnih dijelova do debelih slojeva leda u središtu otoka - koji je debeo i do 3 kilometra, u određenim razmjerima iskusio topljenje. Dosad najveće topljenje u zadnja tri desetljeća pogodilo je oko 55% površine leda. Prema podacima izmjerenima iz uzoraka leda prikupljenih kod stanice Summit, ali i ostalih dijelova ledene kore, ovakvo topljenje se nije dogodilo još od davne 1889. godine. Znanstvenici nisu sigurni je li intenzivno topljenje leda prirodni, ali rijedak događaj, s obzirom da je posljednji zabilježen krajem 19. stoljeća, ili se radi o fenomenu na kojeg je utjecalo ljudsko djelovanje na klimu. - Ledena kora na stanici Summit prikazuje da se ovakvo topljenje leda događa periodično svakih 150 godina. Kako se zadnje dogodilo 1889. godine, ovogodišnje je otprilike prema planu - rekla je Lora Koenig, NASA-ina znanstvenica specijalizirana za proučavanje ledenjaka. - No ako ćemo u idućih nekoliko godina i dalje bilježiti ovakve pojave, to će biti zabrinjavajuće - zaključila je. Vijest je došla svega nekoliko dana nakon što je NASA-in satelit zabilježio golemu santu leda veličine Manhattana koja se odlomila od ledenjaka na Grenlandu. Snimke goleme ledene sante koja se odlomila od ledenjaka na Grenlandu