New research shows that needs to be increased in the last decades major contributors coming to the Greenland sea level prediction 2010, sets new record of melting ice.
"This past melting season longer than 50 day average stretch in some areas thawing exceptional" cold area process laboratory, is leading the project studied the variables that affect the melting of the ice sheet, Dr. Marco Tedesco, Director of the University of New York (City University of New York CCNY-) was.
2010, And at the end of the early April start melting very pretty late ended in mid-September.
Research, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), United States National Science Foundation (NSF) and NASA on various aspects of host not just surface temperature anomaly, Greenland's ice sheet surface considered the surface melting from satellite data, ground observations and model forecasts.
In the reduction in post until the temperature in the summer of 2010, published today in the environmental research letters, Dr. Tedesco, co-authors note 3 ° 5. 4?, integrated above-average snowfall.
Records since its inception in 1873, had a capital, Greenland, Nuuk, warm spring and summer.
Bare ice is average, contributes to the extreme record than longer than in previous years was released ago.
"Is darker than the bare ice snow to absorb more solar radiation" and said Dr. Tedesco. We include effects on the surface of the ice are considering other ice melting feedback loop Lake dust and ice and how towards the surface of a thaw in soot, sea ice flow affects.
WWF natural climate change expert Dr. Martin Sommerkorn said, "3 feet (36 inches) 2100 primarily from the one with the ice melting in rising sea levels are expected to top. To stop there-will continue melting and water level rise than longer to limit the production of greenhouse gases.
In 2009, the Earth's climate system and as a result, have dangerous along the coast of Northeast discovery localized rise of 6 inches of additional United States was nearly $ 7.4 trillion of assets worth rising global sea 20 inches in the major chip point report WWF in the insurance field, Allianz is exposed.
"Greenland's ice to melt shocking speed, wake-up call," said Lou Leonard, WWF's Managing Director of climate change. "Research has reached the same conclusion after study: is emphasized and costly nothing more acceleration, people's lives and species habitats to climate change. To avoid the worst impacts and economic losses is growing quickly, yet our fossil fuels and the transition to a clean energy economy stage started today, chance.
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Contact information for experts:
And Dr. Marco Tedesco and ice cold process Institute, University of New York City, mtedesco (at) Science (dot) ccny (dot) edu cuny (dot) Ph: + 1 2126507027, cell: + 1 2023754884
Martin Sommerkorn, WWF World's Arctic program is msommerkorn (at) is wwf (dot), cell: + 47 9260 6995
Research information
M. can Tedesco, X. Fettweis, m, r, van den Broeke closets, r. s. w. van de Wal, c. j. p. P.Smeets, w. j. van de Berg, Chair Serreze and j. e. albedo and Greenland 2010 accumulation of molten records role environmental research letters found in the http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/6/1/014005 box
You can follow the ice research http://www.cryocity.org Dr. Tedesco continue
Arctic climate change for more information, see http://www.worldwildlife.org/what/wherewework/arctic/index.html.
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