Bravo to the University of Kansas! Until now, attempts to gauge and measure the Greenland Ice Sheet have been unsuccessful, because glaciers are not only are big, but move quickly when they break away from ice sheets, and temperature differences between the surface and the core of a glacier create difficulty for radar to penetrate. On January 16, the Journal of Geophysical Research published that data and equipment developed by the University of Kansas and the Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) had finally created the first comprehensive map of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Now we can determine how quickly ice melted during other eras of the earth's history and better understand and predict the role of disappearing glaciers in climate change. This data is expected to help us during the next fifty to one hundred years, as sea levels rise.
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