An international research team’s field work is showing that,
well, things are more complicated than we thought.
An international research team’s field work, drilling and
measuring melt rates and ice sheet movement in Greenland is showing that things
are, in fact, more complicated than we thought.
“Although the Greenland Ice Sheet initially speeds up each
summer in its slow-motion race to the sea, the network of meltwater channels
beneath the sheet is not necessarily forming the slushy racetrack that had been
previously considered,” said Matthew Hoffman, a Los Alamos National Laboratory
scientist on the project.