Greenland-wide accelerated retreat of peripheral glaciers in the twenty-first century

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• Journal Title:
  Nature Climate Change
• Personal Author:
  Larocca, L. J. ; Twining–Ward, M. ; Axford, Y. ; Schweinsberg, A. D. ; Larsen, S. H. ; Westergaard–Nielsen, A. ; Luetzenburg, G. ; Briner, J. P. ; Kjeldsen, K. K. ; Bjørk, A. A.
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NWS (National Weather Service)
• Description:
  The long-term response of Greenland’s peripheral glaciers to climate change is widely undocumented. Here we use historical aerial photographs and satellite imagery to document length fluctuations of >1,000 land-terminating peripheral glaciers in Greenland over more than a century. We find that their rate of retreat over the last two decades is double that of the twentieth century, indicating a ubiquitous transition into a new, accelerated state of downwasting.
• Keywords:
  Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
• Source:
  Nature Climate Change (2023)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01855-6
• ISSN:
  1758-678X ; 1758-6798
• Format:
  PDF
• Publisher:
  Springer Science and Business Media LLC
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  Grant no. NA18NWS4620043B
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC BY
• Compliance:
  Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:57129597c376e3da741abf0fa7ea7068ced69240bec0663433a6b7f79c11355a
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/58520/noaa_58520_DS1.pdf
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