West Greenland Ice Melt (IMAGE)

Dartmouth College

West Greenland Ice Melt

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Record of melt from two west Greenland ice cores showing that modern melt rates (red) are higher than at any time in the record since at least 1550 CE (black). The record is plotted as the percent of each year's layer represented by refrozen melt water.

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Erich Osterberg

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