Heatwave triggered the largest ice sheet melt in Greenland

A Danish science team has documented record temperatures on mainland Greenland. This increase triggered the largest ice melt in the area.

The melting of glaciers is accelerating every year

Climatologists discovered that the ice shell suffered a "massive melt" during its passage so called a heat wave, during which the temperature exceeded the climatic norm at once by 10 degrees Celsius.

As a result, the ice shell melted at about eight billion tons per day, and this, for a minute, is twice the average rate of ice melting in summer. This was reported on the Polar Portal. It is on this resource that Danish researchers publish their publications.

So the forces of the Danish Meteorological Institute recorded a temperature of 20 degrees Celsius in the northern tip of Greenland. This temperature is almost twice the normal average summer temperature.

And on the territory of Nerlerit Inaat airport, a temperature of 23.4 degrees Celsius was recorded, which is an absolute temperature record in the entire history of observation.

So according to the site, Polar Portal issued a message about such a large-scale melting that water that formed as a result of melting, could cover with a layer five centimeters thick such an American state as Florida.

The Greenland Shield is the second largest mass of freshwater ice in the world and has an area of ​​almost 1.8 million sq. square kilometers. The active reduction of the ice sheet began in 1990 and accelerated actively since 2000. And recently, the rate of ice melting has quadrupled than it was before 2020.

Also, scientists performed computer simulations and found that as a result of this process, the level of the world the ocean will be 10-18 centimeters larger by 2100, which is 60% faster than scientists previously thought.

Well, all this warming is the result of intense pollution of the atmosphere with carbon dioxide and therefore it is not surprising that most countries are beginning an active process of decarbonizing their economies and at the same time putting the most short time. We hope this will help preserve our planet for future generations.

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