Credit: Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
This NASA visualization shows the change in the surface elevation of the southeast region of the Greenland ice sheet between 2003 and 2012. Thinning near coastal regions is shown in green, blue and purple. In addition, blue/white flows indicate the direction and speed of the ice movement. In the new study, University at Buffalo geophysicist Beata Csatho and her team found areas of rapid shrinkage in southeast Greenland that current climate models don’t address, which suggests that the ice sheet may lose ice more rapidly in the near future than previously thought.