New Studies Get to the Bottom of Antarctic Melting

Researchers from NASA and the University of California, Irvine (UCI) have gained an unprecedented view of ice melting on the floating undersides of glaciers. In the process, they detected the fastest ongoing rates of glacier retreat ever observed in West Antarctica.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using modified Copernicus Sentinel data pre-processed by the European Space Agency and courtesy of Scheuchl, B. et al. (2016) and Khazendar, A. et al. (2016). Photograph by NASA/OIB/Michael Studinger. Caption by Carol Rasmussen, NASA Earth Science News Team, with Mike Carlowicz.

Published October 30, 2016
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