In 2016, surface melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet started early and fast.
Published Jul 1, 2016
The ice-covered island’s melt season lasted 50 days longer than average.
Published Feb 18, 2011
In May 2007, a team of researchers found evidence of warming and melting as much as 900 kilometers into Antarctica.
Published May 31, 2007
The 2011 Greenland melt season was up to 30 days longer than the 1979–2010 average. This color-coded map shows where melt season lasted more or less than average.
Published Dec 6, 2011
In July 2012, satellites observed melting on nearly 97 percent of the ice sheet surface.
Published Jul 25, 2012
Melt ponds on the surface of Greenland’s ice sheet are an important indicator of the strength of the 2013 melt season.
Published Jul 9, 2013
Unusual late-season events could produce long-term changes to the snowpack on the Larsen C ice shelf.
Published Apr 11, 2019
Melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet reveals impurity-rich ice that is thousands of years old.
Published Oct 28, 2014
Researchers from NASA and the University of California, Irvine (UCI) have gained an unprecedented view of ice melting on the floating undersides of glaciers. In the process, they detected the fastest ongoing rates of glacier retreat ever observed in West Antarctica.
Published Oct 30, 2016
The northern fringes of Greenland's ice sheet saw extreme melting in 2008, according to NASA scientist Marco Tedesco and his colleagues.
Published Feb 25, 2009
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