Changes in Greenland ice sheet over space and time (PNAS)

Polar ice sheets are melt­ing and con­tribut­ing to a global rise in sea-level. This study looked at changes in Greenland’s ice sheet from April 2002 to August 2011 and found that active areas of ice loss were con­cen­trated on the south­east­ern and north­west­ern coasts, with ice mass in the cen­ter of Green­land steadily increas­ing over the decade.

Christo­pher Harig and Fred­erik J. Simons. Map­ping Greenland’s mass loss in space and time. Pro­ceed­ings of the National Acad­emy of Sci­ences. Pub­lished online before print Novem­ber 19, 2012, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1206785109

Read the abstract.