ApocaDocs: Canadian Arctic Glacier Melt Accelerating, Irreversible, Projections Suggest

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Posted Tue Mar 12 2013: from American Geophysical Union:


	Canadian Arctic Glacier Melt Accelerating, Irreversible, Projections Suggest http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1363132149 ...In the past few years, the mass of the glaciers in the Canadian Arctic archipelago has begun to plummet. Observations from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites suggest that from 2004 to 2011 the region's glaciers shed approximately 580 gigatons of ice. Aside from glacier calving, which plays only a small role in Canadian glacier mass loss, the drop is due largely to a shift in the surface-mass balance, with warming-induced meltwater runoff outpacing the accumulation of new snowfall.

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