The warming oceans worldwide are leading to the rapid melting of ice and glaciers long thought to be stable. A new study co-authored by SJSU Assistant Professor and Oceanographer Mike Wood shows us just how dire the situation is becoming, and how the Bay Area could be impacted.
Greenland's ice shelves are melting towards collapse, San Jose State University and international researchers find.The warming oceans worldwide are leading to the rapid melting of ice and glaciers long thought to be stable.co-authored by San Jose State University Assistant Professor and Oceanographer Mike Wood shows us just how dire the situation is becoming.
Wood has been studying the Greenland ice shelves at the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. He and a group of international researchers used data from satellites, aircrafts and other models to see an unprecedented increase in melting across Greenland's northern eight ice shelves."We've seen an increase in ice melting on the undersides of these ice shelves over the past 20 years," Wood said.
"This is really important because as we melt down these ice shelves, they act as dams to hold back the ice," Wood said. "So, as they weaken, this permits in an increase in the ice that can make it into the ocean and that causes sea level rise." "Ice is then added to the ocean in Northern Greenland, it melts and it finds its way through currents," Wood said. "So, it really spreads its way across the entire world. Of course, sea-level rise is one of the most concerning components in our changing climate and that's because most of our global population, like in the Bay Area, lives along the coast."
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