Add to ORKGAfter Antarctica, Greenland's ice cap contains the second largest mass of frozen fresh water in the world. Based on new research using NASA's airborne laser altimeter, scientists have identified pronounced thinning of Greenland's ice cap. This new research indicates enough ice loss to cause a measurable rise in sea levels. This site, produced by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, features text, photographs, satellite imagery, and animations to describe the loss of ice and the use of lidar (laser altimetry) to make the precise measurements necessary to reveal the loss of ice. Educational levels: High school
Aircraft laser-altimeter surveys over northern Greenland in 1994 and 1999 have been coupled with pre...
The world’s ice sheets hold 69% of the world’s freshwater, and polar regions are warming at an accel...
Many glaciers along the southeast and northwest coasts of Greenland have accelerated, increasing the...
The polar ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are the least explored reservoirs of water on the p...
We present a new record of ice thickness change, reconstructed at nearly 100,000 sites on the Greenl...
The Arctic Ice Mapping group (Project AIM) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Wallops Flight Fa...
In recent decades, Greenland's peripheral glaciers have experienced large-scale mass loss, resulting...
The largest decrease in ice elevation occurred on Greenlands east coast. Dark blue indicates the ar...
Top-down view of Greenland Island tour.This animation shows the ice concentration in Greenland. The ...
Here the authors use remote sensing observations and machine learning to show that clouds will becom...
During the past few decades the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have lost ice at accelerating rat...
This animation shows the ice concentration in Greenland. The ice has decreased significantly (~50 c...
This animation shows the ice concentration in Greenland. The ice has decreased significantly (~50 cm...
Since measurements of Jakobshavn Isbrae were first taken in 1850, the glacier has gradually receded,...
This animation shows the ice concentration in Greenland. The ice has decreased significantly (~50 c...
Aircraft laser-altimeter surveys over northern Greenland in 1994 and 1999 have been coupled with pre...
The world’s ice sheets hold 69% of the world’s freshwater, and polar regions are warming at an accel...
Many glaciers along the southeast and northwest coasts of Greenland have accelerated, increasing the...
The polar ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are the least explored reservoirs of water on the p...
We present a new record of ice thickness change, reconstructed at nearly 100,000 sites on the Greenl...
The Arctic Ice Mapping group (Project AIM) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Wallops Flight Fa...
In recent decades, Greenland's peripheral glaciers have experienced large-scale mass loss, resulting...
The largest decrease in ice elevation occurred on Greenlands east coast. Dark blue indicates the ar...
Top-down view of Greenland Island tour.This animation shows the ice concentration in Greenland. The ...
Here the authors use remote sensing observations and machine learning to show that clouds will becom...
During the past few decades the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have lost ice at accelerating rat...
This animation shows the ice concentration in Greenland. The ice has decreased significantly (~50 c...
This animation shows the ice concentration in Greenland. The ice has decreased significantly (~50 cm...
Since measurements of Jakobshavn Isbrae were first taken in 1850, the glacier has gradually receded,...
This animation shows the ice concentration in Greenland. The ice has decreased significantly (~50 c...
Aircraft laser-altimeter surveys over northern Greenland in 1994 and 1999 have been coupled with pre...
The world’s ice sheets hold 69% of the world’s freshwater, and polar regions are warming at an accel...
Many glaciers along the southeast and northwest coasts of Greenland have accelerated, increasing the...