(Table 1) Mass loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet
| Cobertura |
MEDIAN LATITUDE: 74.250000 * MEDIAN LONGITUDE: -43.089286 * SOUTH-BOUND LATITUDE: 65.000000 * WEST-BOUND LONGITUDE: -65.000000 * NORTH-BOUND LATITUDE: 81.000000 * EAST-BOUND LONGITUDE: 62.500000 * MINIMUM ORDINAL NUMBER: 1 * MAXIMUM ORDINAL NUMBER: 28 |
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| Data(s) |
19/07/2006
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| Resumo |
Using satellite radar interferometry observations of Greenland, we detected widespread glacier acceleration below 66° north between 1996 and 2000, which rapidly expanded to 70° north in 2005. Accelerated ice discharge in the west and particularly in the east doubled the ice sheet mass deficit in the last decade from 90 to 220 cubic kilometers per year. As more glaciers accelerate farther north, the contribution of Greenland to sea-level rise will continue to increase. |
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text/tab-separated-values, 238 data points |
| Identificador |
https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.786385 doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.786385 |
| Idioma(s) |
en |
| Publicador |
PANGAEA |
| Direitos |
CC-BY: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Access constraints: unrestricted |
| Fonte |
Supplement to: Rignot, Eric; Kanagaratnam, Pannir (2006): Changes in the velocity structure of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Science, 311(5763), 956-990, doi:10.1126/science.1121381 |
| Palavras-Chave | #Area in square kilometer; Glacier; Glacier discharge; Ice flux; Identification; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; Mass balance; ORDINAL NUMBER; Surface mass balance |
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Dataset |
