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Nordenskiold Glacier, Greenland. Image modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2017), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Nordenskiold Glacier in Greenland

April 22, 2019September 29, 2017 by Caitlin Dempsey

Learn about Nordenskiold Glacier, Greenland and what ‘glacier milk’ is.

This map of Greenland ice sheet velocity was created using data from Sentinel-1A in January–March 2015 and complemented by the routine 12-day repeat acquisitions of the margins since June 2015. About 1200 radar scenes from the satellite’s wide-swath mode were used to produce the map, which clearly shows dynamic glacier outlets around the Greenland coast. In particular, the Zachariae Isstrom glacier in the northeast is changing rapidly, and recently reported as having become unmoored from a stabilising sill and now crumbling into the North Atlantic Ocean. (Colour scale in metres per day).

Ice Loss in Greenland

January 17, 2016 by Elizabeth Borneman

Recent research has shown that one of Greeland’s largest glaciers is losing up to five billion tons of ice every year as it melts into the ocean.

Some areas of the Southern Antarctic Peninsula have lost up to 30 m in ice since 2009. Source: University of Bristol

Ice Loss in Antarctica

August 16, 2015 by Rebecca Maxwell

In the last six years, a 750 kilometer (466 mile) strip of Antarctica has been shedding ice into the ocean at a rate of about 60 cubic km each year according to data collected from Cryosat-2.

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