A New Look At Melting Under Antarctic Glaciers

October 26, 2016

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Fast Facts: › Related studies of three West Antarctic glaciers have measured the intense melting on their floating undersides and how fast the glaciers are coming unstuck from bedrock. › The fastest-changing glacier of the three (Smith Glacier) is melting nearly six times as fast as a previous estimate for this region, losing up to 230…

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InAdvanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, Alaska State Troopers, Alps, Altai Mountains, Amazon basin, Avalanche, Glacier, NASA, NASA Earth Observatory, Tibet

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Rachael

7 years ago

My husband loves your science posts Mike, although I can’t get him to comment on anything. Says it takes him too long to type. I also like them, well, some of them anyway. There’s always a few where you have to be a scientist yourself to understand them 🙂