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Land-facing, southwest Greenland Ice Sheet movement decreasing
2015-10-29 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: In the face of decades of increasing temperatures and surface melting, the movement of the southwest portion of the Greenland Ice Sheet that terminates on land has been slowing down, according to a new study being published by the journal Nature on Oct. 29. Researchers derived their results by tracking ice sheet movement through Landsat satellite images taken from 1985 to 2014 across a roughly 3,088-square-mile (8000-square-kilometer) region in southwest Greenland. They found that, between 2007...
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