Researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) have created simulations of ocean currents beneath the ice of the 79° North Glacier in northeast Greenland. The glacier tongue has become thinner and thinner over the years, and the team from AWI has discovered the reason behind it.
Researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute ( AWI ) have created simulations of ocean currents beneath the ice of the 79° North Glacier in northeast Greenland . The Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden Glacier – also known as the 79° North Glacier – on the northeast coast of Greenland flows directly into a fjord, where it forms an 80-kilometre-long tongue of floating ice. Although the tongue hasn’t lost much length during the past several decades, it has grown thinner and thinner.
A team from the Alfred Wegener Institute can now tell us why
Alfred Wegener Institute AWI 79° North Glacier Greenland Ocean Currents Simulations Thinning
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