Greenland's ice sheets offer clues into sea-level rise

Published October 21, 2018 This content is archived.

An article in National Geographic about Greenland’s ice sheets and the clues they hold about global sea-level rise interviews Jason Briner, professor of geology, who with his team is working there to see if warmer air, which typically carries more moisture, may end up depositing additional snow in the Arctic, a factor that could reduce the rate of ice sheet shrinkage. “If the ice sheet gets more snowfall in warm times then we might want to know that in our computer model forecasts of ice-sheet shrinkage and sea-level rise,” Briner said. “What we’re interested in figuring out is the sensitivity of the ice sheet to climate change,” he added, noting this will ultimately influence sea-level rise. “If there's an abrupt climate change versus a gradual climate change, does that affect the ice sheet differently?”

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/10/greenland-ice-sheet-predicts-sea-level-rise-climate-change/?user.testname=none