By Ananya Chandhok Medill Reports, Feb. 20, 2024 For University of Washington oceanographer Channing Prend how ocean currents circulate heat is a critical consideration for understanding ice melt in Antarctica. Prend’s research on the West Antarctic ice sheet revealed that heat from water thousands of miles to the north can lead to ice melt onshore …
The Greenland ice sheet is more than three times the size of Texas, 2 miles deep at its thickest point. And it’s melting.
Not only is it melting, but it’s melting at a rate not seen in 400 years, according to a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters in April. The study involved taking short ice core samples and examining the surface layers of snow to find out how much melting had occurred.
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