Thinning of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream

Greenland is a country part of the Danish Empire (Denmark). This territory is home to the planet’s giant ice sheet excluding Antarctica. Recent studies made through observations collected from the ground, air, and space revealed that the ice sheet is rapidly thinning in the Northeast part of the ice sheet. According to scientists, this could contribute to higher ocean levels.

“Waterways” of somewhat short ice, known as ice streams, for the most part, stream from Greenland’s inside toward its coasts. The Upper East Greenland Ice Stream is the island’s biggest, emptying ice out of a bowl that traverses around 12% of the ice sheet. Quite a bit of that land-based ice at last moves through two fundamental outlet ice sheets, where it releases ice shelves and softens into the sea.

Shafqat Abbas Khan, a researcher at the Specialized College of Denmark, and partners as of late found that the Upper east Greenland Ice Stream is accelerating and diminishing, at its edges as well as far inland. A group of ice sheet modelers at Dartmouth School then, at that point, utilized this information to change their projections of the ice stream’s commitment to the ocean level ascent, which they say is supposed to be multiple times bigger than models recently showed before the century’s over. The exploration was distributed in the diary Nature.

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Author: Sri Nihal Tammana

Source: NASA Earth Observatory