Extreme melting at Greenland's largest floating ice tongue
25 March 2024
The 79° North Glacier in Greenland has experienced significant changes over the last decades. Due to extreme melt rates, the ice has thinned significantly in the vicinity of the grounding line, where a large subglacial channel has formed since 2010. The authors attribute these changes to warm ocean currents and increased subglacial discharge from surface melt. However, basal melting has decreased since 2018, indicating colder water inflow into the cavity below the glacier.
The also read the press release by Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).
Extreme melting at Greenland's largest floating ice tongue
The Cryosphere, 18, 1333–1357, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-1333-2024, 2024
Contact: Ole Zeising (ole.zeising@awi.de)
