An unusual warming pattern has caused the Greenland ice sheet to melt at 'unusual,' potentially record-breaking rates, causing it to dump even more water into the already-rising ocean, experts tell ABC News.
An unusual warming pattern has caused the Greenland ice sheet to melt at"unusual," potentially record-breaking rates, causing it to dump even more water into the already-rising ocean, experts told ABC News.
The clear skies created more solar radiation, which heated the ice sheet and promoted the melting, Tedesco told ABC News. News from @ZERO74N : The 15th of June is the long term average date for 50 % #snowcover in the central part of the #Zackenberg Valley . While last year it was still around 100 %, this year all snow was gone on this date. Imagery data from #sentinel #Greenland pic.twitter.com/kB2VEm9Yek
About 40% of Greenland experienced"unusual" melting as a result of the unseasonably warm temperatures, which included a considerable amount of sea ice, according to DMI. The warming season in 2012 set the record for the amount of melting in the ice sheet, according to experts. That year, melting reached more than 90 percent of the ice sheet and continued past the typical peak of high pressure from July through August, Tedesco said.
Not only does that process take thousands of years, but it requires that the snow deposits do not melt in the warming season, Tedesco said.
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