Large ice loss variability at Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden Glacier, Northeast-Greenland

The Greenland Ice Sheet has increasingly lost mass over the past few decades, yet the contribution from glaciers in Northeast Greenland is difficult to quantify. Here, the authors show that the floating part of 79 North Glacier has continuously lost mass since at least 2001, with a very high annual...

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Main Authors: Christoph Mayer, Janin Schaffer, Tore Hattermann, Dana Floricioiu, Lukas Krieger, Paul A. Dodd, Torsten Kanzow, Carlo Licciulli, Clemens Schannwell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05180-x