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Summer melt-driven streams on Greenland's ice sheet brought into focus

2016-04-07 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Erosion by summertime melt-driven streams on Greenland's ice sheet shapes landscapes similarly to, but much faster than, rivers do on land, says a University of Oregon geologist. The approach used to study the ice sheet should help to broaden scientific understanding of melt rates and improve projections about glacial response to climate change, says Leif Karlstrom, a professor in the UO Department of Geological Sciences. The study, online ahead of print in the journal Geophysical Research Letters,...

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