Taking Stock of Edgy Parts of Greenland

Loss of ice at the periphery of the Greenland Ice Sheet was often discounted; recent research suggests it should not be.

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NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data courtesy of Khan, S. A., et al. (2022). Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published September 30, 2022
Data acquired 2003 - 2021

Sources:

ICESat > GLAS

ICESat-2 > ATLAS