Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of climate change. Using time-lapse cameras, his videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate.
-> continue readingCurrent Speedlimits in Greenland
credit: Rignot, E. and J. Mouginot
Abstract: The ice motion map reveals various flow regimes, ranging from patterned enhanced flow into a few large glaciers in the cold, low precipitation areas of north Greenland; to diffuse, enhanced flow into numerous, narrow, fast-moving glaciers in the warmer, high precipitation sectors of northwest and southeast Greenland. We find that the 100 fastest glaciers (v > 800 m/yr) drain 66% of the ice sheet in area, marine-terminating ...
-> continue readingBroken off Tongue of Petermann Glacier entered Atlantic
Last year August 5th, a huge piece of ice broke off the tongue of the Petermann glacier. It crossed Baffin Bay and is now close to Labrador moving South. The ice island still measures ~10km in length. Can anybody spot the mousepointer? :) (click to zoom)
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