Aerial Photos Reveal Decades of Greenland Ice Loss (6 of 7) (IMAGE)

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Aerial Photos Reveal Decades of Greenland Ice Loss (6 of 7)

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This shows the calving front of the second most southerly tributary of the Upernavik Icestream. The glacier front in the center of the picture rises approximately 40 meters above sea level. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the August 03, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by K.H. Kjær at Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark, and colleagues was titled, “Aerial Photographs Reveal Late–20th-Century Dynamic Ice Loss in Northwestern Greenland.”

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[Niels J. Korsgaard, Natural History Museum of Denmark.]

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