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Greenland

Photo-like satellite image of southern Greenland on the afternoon of September 4, 2022. Bare, dirty ice at the margin of the ice sheet appears gray. Snow-covered ice is bright white. Pale blue ribbons and circles are lakes, rivers and ponds of melt water.

UC Irvine Earth system scientists discover missing piece in climate models

Their update accounts for the effects of overlooked physical properties in ice

A glacier in a fjord in Greenland.

Grounding zone discovery explains accelerated melting under Greenland’s glaciers

UC Irvine researchers suggest we may be underestimating severity of sea level rise

Greenland is dotted with frozen meltwater lakes such as the one above, photographed during a NASA expedition in 2012.

Ice sheet surface melt is accelerating in Greenland and slowing in Antarctica

UC Irvine-led researchers identify contributions of downslope winds and ozone layer

UCI, NASA JPL researchers discover a cause of rapid ice melting in Greenland

Study suggests extent of future sea level rise could be vastly underestimated

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UCI Podcast: Oceans Melting Greenland mission ends

UCI, NASA scientists studied the role of warming sea water on the island’s land ice

UCI researchers identify primary causes of Greenland’s rapid ice sheet surface melt

Weather station data point to wind- and solar-driven heating as leading culprits

Greenland shed ice at unprecedented rate in 2019; Antarctica continues to lose mass

UCI, NASA JPL project tracking Earth-sensing satellite turnover yields striking results

Greenland ice loss is at ‘worse-case scenario’ levels, study finds

UCI glaciologists play key roles on international assessment team

Grad student sees traces of fire in ice cores

To make better predictions about future wildfires around the world, climate scientists want to know the prevalence and intensity of past outbreaks. For a study published recently in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Melinda Nicewonger, a UCI graduate student in Earth system science, examined ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica to measure changes […]

UCI-led study helps explain Greenland glaciers’ varied vulnerability to melting

More accurate maps of bed topography reveal physical processes controlling retreat