{"id":2789,"date":"2023-05-06T12:44:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T10:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2023-05-06T19:46:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T17:46:31","slug":"atmospheric-rivers-associated-with-the-melting-of-the-greenland-ice-sheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/05\/06\/atmospheric-rivers-associated-with-the-melting-of-the-greenland-ice-sheet\/","title":{"rendered":"Atmospheric rivers associated with the melting of the Greenland ice sheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atmospheric rivers -- long, concentrated streams of moisture in the sky -- are a key factor in the complex conditions that are accelerating the melting of glaciers over northern Greenland, according to new research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Led by Kyle Mattingly, a researcher at UW-Madison&#039;s Space Science and Engineering Center, a new study of moisture rivers over Greenland was published in\u00a0<i>Nature Communications<\/i>. Atmospheric rivers, sometimes stretching for thousands of kilometers, carry moisture from the tropics to other parts of the world. They are an essential part of the global weather cycle and can bring needed rains to drought-stricken areas. However, they can also contribute to dangerous flooding. &quot;The Greenland ice sheet has seen an acceleration of glacier melt over the past 30 years,&quot; says Mattingly. &quot;Our research shows the major influences that atmospheric rivers can have on the northeastern part of the ice sheet.&quot; Greenland is covered by an ice sheet 3,000 meters (9,800 feet) thick, which contains enough water to raise sea levels by 7 meters, or 23 feet. For millennia, it has played an important role in regulating the Earth&#039;s temperature and climate, but this stability is threatened by climate change. The warming conditions begin with atmospheric rivers that form on the northwest side of Greenland and move eastward, creating what are known as Foehn winds. Wind commonly occurs when moist air meets a change in elevation, such as a mountain or steep Greenlandic coastline. As this moist air rises, it condenses and may precipitate as rain or snow, releasing heat into the atmosphere. Now warmer and drier, air continues to flow across the ice sheet and back to the northeast side of Greenland. <em>(Eric Verbeten, University of Wisconsin-Madison)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atmospheric rivers \u2014 long, concentrated streams of moisture in the sky \u2014 are a key factor in the complex conditions that are accelerating the melting of glaciers over northern Greenland, according to new research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Led by Kyle Mattingly, a researcher in UW-Madison&#039;s Space Science and Engineering Center, the new study of moisture rivers over Greenland was published in Nature Communications. Atmospheric rivers, which [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}