"Greenland’s unusually mild summer in 2019 caused the world’s largest island to lose 600 billion tons of ice in just two months, rivaling the summer of 2012 for the most ice mass lost in a single melt season, according to NASA data released Wednesday.
“We knew this past summer had been particularly warm in Greenland, melting every corner of the ice sheet, but the numbers are enormous,” said lead author Isabella Velicogna, an Earth science professor at the University of California at Irvine and a senior scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in a news release.
The mass loss from Greenland alone was enough to raise global sea levels by 2.2 millimeters, the study found."
Andrew Freedman reports for the Washington Post March 18, 2020.
Source: Washington Post, 03/19/2020
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