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"Greenland is the largest island in the world and on it rests the
largest ice mass in the Northern Hemisphere. If all that ice melted, the
sea would rise by more than 7 metres.
But that’s not going to happen is it? Well not any time soon, but
understanding how much of the ice sheet might melt over the coming
century is a critical and urgent question that scientists are trying to
tackle using sophisticated numerical models of how the ice sheet
interacts with the rest of the climate system. The problem is that the
models aren’t that good at reproducing recent observations and are
limited by our poor knowledge of the detailed topography of the
subglacial terrain and fjords, which the ice flows over and in to.
One way around this problem is to see how the ice sheet responded to
changes in climate in the past and compare that with model projections
for the future for similar changes in temperature. That is exactly what
colleagues and I did in a new study now published in the journal
Nature
Communications."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
