http://ihrrblog.org/2012/07/26/widspread-melting-of-greenland-ice-sheet/ Making a difference to how we live with hazard and risk Tue, 21 May 2013 21:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://ihrrblog.org/2012/07/26/widspread-melting-of-greenland-ice-sheet/#comment-1592 Sun, 29 Jul 2012 16:45:42 +0000 http://ihrrblog.org/?p=4153#comment-1592 [...] Widspread melting of Greenland ice sheet – via ihrrblog.org – While there have been a range of hazards affecting different parts of the world this summer including forest fires and heat waves in the US, forest fires in Northern Catalonia (Spain) and France, along with flooding and landslides across a number of different countries including the UK, the Greenland ice sheet has recently underwent some serious surface melting, the most observed in three decades of satellite observations according to the NASA Earth Observatory. Their satellites on 8 July first showed 40 percent of the ice sheet thawing at or near the surface and by 12 July the melting ‘spread dramatically beyond the norm’. Now the fact that the Greenland ice sheet is melting in the summer time is hardly news, but melting in July has been extreme coinciding with the presence of a ridge of unusually warm air creating a ‘heat dome’ over Greenland. [...]

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