{"id":2860,"date":"2023-05-09T05:06:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T03:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=2860"},"modified":"2023-05-09T05:06:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T03:06:56","slug":"greenlands-large-glacier-is-melting-with-the-tide-which-could-signal-faster-sea-level-rise-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/05\/09\/greenlands-large-glacier-is-melting-with-the-tide-which-could-signal-faster-sea-level-rise-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenland&#039;s Great Glacier is melting with tides, which could signal faster sea-level rise, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_F1E083A7-0A42-0ED5-09D3-FCEB96BB78B9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\"><span>Scientists reported on Monday that a large glacier in the northwest\u00a0<\/span><span>Greenland<\/span><span>\u00a0interacts with ocean tides, resulting in previously incomprehensible melting and\u00a0<\/span><span>potentially faster sea level rise<\/span><span> .\u00a0<\/span><span>A group of glaciologists from the University of California, Irvine and NASA&#039;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory published the study on Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. <\/span>Observations from the Petermann Glacier revealed that the glacier&#039;s grounding line\u2014the area where the ice sheet begins to extend over the ocean\u2014can shift significantly as the tide approaches each day.According to Enrico Cirac\u00ec, lead author of the study and a UCI scientist, the Petermann Grounding Line line \u201cmigrates between 2 and 6 kilometers (1.2 to 3.7 mi) s ebb and flow. <span>This is an important finding: The traditional view among scientists was that the grounding line did not migrate with the tides\u2014and that represents another major source of melting that could accelerate sea-level rise. <\/span>Between 2016 and 2022, warmer tidal cycles melted a 670-foot hole in the bottom of the glacier along the grounding line \u2014 big enough to fit two Statues of Liberty inside. <span>This phenomenon could worsen in the coming years and decades as ocean temperatures rise.\u00a0<\/span><span>CNN recently <\/span><span>she announced<\/span><span> , that sea surface temperatures were the highest on record this spring \u2014 a spike that has alarmed scientists, who fear it could be a factor. (<em>Brandon Miller, CNN meteorologist)<\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists reported Monday that a large glacier in northwest Greenland is interacting with ocean tides, resulting in previously unexplained melting and potentially faster sea level rise. A team of glaciologists from the University of California, Irvine and NASA&#039;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory published a study Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Observations from [\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-2860","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\/2860","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=2860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}