greenland ice sheet

We just had a number of cameras out on the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Even under such conditions, it would still take thousands of years for the Greenland ice sheet to disappear, Steffen said.

But by whatever mechanism, the giant Greenland ice sheet was accelerating across its rocky moorings and toward the sea.

Several metres of sea level rise is now inevitable as the Greenland ice sheet disappears.

The Greenland Ice Sheet, a large mass of ice that covers most of Greenland, has been melting at an increasing rate since the early 1990s.

Westerners may shrug at the decline of traditional hunting but, in a sense, we all live on the Greenland ice sheet now.

Former Vice President Al Gore joined the Cabinet of Ministers of the Nordic countries to discuss the Greenland ice sheet in Copenhagen.

Majestic blue icebergs the size of small islands float outside its harbour; its ice fjord drains 7% of the area of the Greenland ice sheet.

Spiking global temperatures are wreaking havoc with the Greenland ice sheet. Some fear that the colossal sheet is on the verge of collapse.

The blue diamond is one vivid pointer to the antiquity of the Greenland ice sheet.

The three glaciers that Hamilton and Stearns measured account for about a fifth of the discharge from the entire Greenland ice sheet.

Straneo's research is looking at what scientists call the "dynamic effects" of the Greenland ice sheet.

The Greenland ice sheet is not merely being melted from above by warmer air temperatures.

The Greenland ice sheet is melting three times faster today than it was five years ago, according to a new study.

Konrad Steffen of the University of Colorado, Boulder, leads one study of the Greenland ice sheet.

A 2009 study found that the Greenland ice sheet shed roughly 385 cubic miles of ice over the previous seven years.

This image shows the eastern margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

But the Greenland ice sheet is not one solid, smooth mass of ice.

5Blue pools of melted ice form atop Jakobshavn Glacier, near the edge of the Greenland ice sheet, on July 19, 2011.

20A melting iceberg floats along a fjord leading away from the edge of the Greenland ice sheet near Nuuk, Greenland, on July 26, 2011.

21This July 26, 2011 aerial photo shows the edge of the Greenland ice sheet, right, adjacent to a series of lakes in central Greenland.

Whether acceleration of melting from the Greenland Ice Sheet will continue, he added, is a big question mark.

An example of abrupt climate change would be the rapid loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Changes in the velocity structure of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

In fact, the Greenland ice sheet is the second largest area of ice on land in the world.

27The contoured surface of Jakobshavn Glacier at the fringe of the Greenland ice sheet, on July 19, 2011.

A meltwater lake on the Greenland ice sheet that contained 44 billion litres and covered 5. 7 sq km gurgled away within 24 hours in 2006.

Effects of a melted greenland ice sheet on climate, vegetation, and the cryosphere

The melt anomaly of 2002 on the Greenland Ice Sheet from active and passive microwave satellite observations

Greenland ice sheet response to external forcing