Warming Ocean Tides Melt Glaciers, Which Makes Sea Levels Rise, Which Melts More Glaciers
Scientists used satellite imagery to observe the ice and noticed that the Petermann Glacier was bobbing around in response to ocean tides. The glacier’s grounding line, which is where the ice stops touching the land bed and floats,. From 2017 to 2022, researchers observed that the grounding zone retreated 1.6 kilometers on the western side of the glacier, and 3.7 kilometers at the glacier’s center, the study said.
warming oceans melt glaciers, which causes sea levels to rise, which means more contact between glaciers and the ocean, which means more glacial“These ice-ocean interactions make the glaciers more sensitive to ocean warming,” Eric Rignot, a NASA Jet Propulsion Lab research scientist, said.
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