The future of glaciers

The satellites have shown a more accurate picture of rapid weight loss that are suffering the ice off the coast of Greenland and Antarctica. This finding, published in the journal Nature, will enable more accurate predictions about future sea level rise that can cause this phenomenon linked to climate change and the ecology.

The deepest ice loss is due to accelerated melting of glaciers at the time that they meet the sea, according to a group of researchers from the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Bristol (Southern England) . In reaching this conclusion, the researchers analyzed millions of measurements of the huge ice sheets of both Antarctica and Greenland provided by NASA.

The glaciers and the ecology

The experts saw this "dynamic thinning 'glaciers experiencing now reaches all latitudes in Greenland, has intensified along the coast of Antarctica, is penetrating into the interior of ice sheets and is spreading in the form of thin layers ice due to melting of the ocean and the ecology.
The scientist Hamish Pritchard, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) said that the "surprise" that these discoveries have led the researchers saw a pattern as strong thinning of glaciers in coastal areas as large. "

The Future of the Glaciers

"We think the most likely cause it has a faster flow on the glacier is due to the warm currents of the ocean when they reach the shores and melt the glacier," he says.
The expert admits that the phenomenon of melting is not yet well understood so it "remains the most unpredictable of the rise in sea level in the future and the ecology."