File:Icecap melting in southern Greenland.jpg

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The effects of climate change are becoming increasingly visible at high latitudes. According to a study published in Nature, Greenland lost 586 billion tons of ice in 2019, adding 1.5 millimetres to global sea-level rise.

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English: The effects of climate change are becoming increasingly visible at high latitudes. According to a study published in Nature, Greenland lost 586 billion tons of ice in 2019, adding 1.5 millimetres to global sea-level rise. The summer of 2020 did not reach the exceptional levels of 2019 in Greenland, but, according to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC), it was once again a season during which the melting of the ice sheet was higher than the reference value for the period 1981 - 2010. This image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 20 August 2020, shows the effects of the thaw in the area south of Nuuk, in southern Greenland: the grey-blue waters are coloured by the sediments carried in the surface runoff that pours into the Arctic Ocean. Data acquired by the Copernicus Sentinel satellites are used to detect changes in land surfaces in high detail even at northern latitudes and help monitor the glaciers melting.
Date 25 August 2020 (upload date)
Source Icecap melting in southern Greenland
Author European Union , Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery

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