Warming Seas Are Undercutting Sverdrup Glacier in Northwest Greenland

Increasing ocean temperature threatens Greenland's ice sheet

"The biggest and deepest glaciers are undercut much faster than the smaller glaciers in shallow water,” said lead author Michael Wood, a post-doctoral researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland mission are predicting the rising seas of the future.

Increasing ocean temperature threatens Greenland's ice sheet