University of California Irvine Team Discovers 'Vigorous Melting' at Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier
India, May 21 -- A team of glaciologists led by researchers at the University of California, Irvine used high-resolution satellite radar data to find evidence of the intrusion of warm, high-pressure seawater many kilometers beneath the grounded ice of West Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier.
In a study published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the UC Irvine-led team said that widespread contact between ocean water and the glacier - a process that is replicated throughout Antarctica and in Greenland - causes "vigorous melting" and may require a reassessment of global sea level rise projections.
The glaciologists relied on data gathered from March to June of 2023 by Finland's ICEYE commercial satellite mission. The IC...
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