The chart shows the averaged rate of Greenland's mass loss, measured in centimeters of ice thickness, between February 2003 and June 2009 (AGU).
Greenland’s ice mass loss over the past decade–concentrated primarily over its southern most regions–has been well-documented and has been a prime impetus for global warming and climate change concerns, especially as regards the impacts on the Arctic region. Now, thanks to an innovative, combined Earth-Space monitoring system, geophysicists and climatologists have been able to track Greenland’s ice mass loss “migrating” northward (see the embedded video simulation of this migration in the body of this article).
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