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Satellites reveal sudden ice melt in Greenland

Bbc Online
The surface of Greenland's massive ice sheet has melted this month over an unusually large area, Nasa has said.
Scientists said the "unprecedented" melting took place over a larger area than has been detected in FROM PAGE 20
three decades of satellite observation.
Melting even occurred at Greenland's coldest and highest place, Summit station.
The thawed ice area jumped from 40 percent of the ice sheet to 97pc in just four days from 8 July.
Although about half of Greenland's ice sheet normally sees surface melting over the summer months, the speed and scale of this year's thaw surprised scientists, who described the phenomenon as "extraordinary".
Nasa said nearly the entire ice cover of Greenland, from its thin, low-lying coastal edges to its centre, which is 3km (two miles) thick, experienced some degree of melting at its surface.
Until now, the most extensive melting seen by satellites in the past three decades was about 55 percent of the area.
According to ice core records, such pronounced melting at Summit station and across the ice sheet has not occurred since 1889.
"When we see melt in places that we haven't seen before, at least in a long period of time, it makes you sit up and ask what's happening," Nasa chief scientist Waleed Abdalati said.
"It's a big signal, the meaning of which we’re going to sort out for years to come." WATCH THIS SPACE Because this Greenlandwide melting has happened before -- in 1889 -- scientists are not yet able to determine whether this is a natural but rare event, or if it has been sparked by man-made climate change, he said.
"Ice cores from Summit show that melting events of this type occur about once every 150 years on average. With the last one happening in 1889, this event is right on lime," said Lora Koenig, a glaciologist from Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and a member of the research team analysing the satellite data.
"But if we continue to observe melting events like this in upcoming years, it will be worrisome."
Scientists said they believed that much of Greenland's ice was already freezing again.
The news comes just days after Nasa satellite imagery revealed that a massive iceberg, twice the size of Manhattan, had broken off a glacier in Greenland.
"This event, combined with other natural but uncommon phenomena, such as the large calving event last week on Petermann Glacier, are part of a complex story," said Nasa’sTom Wagner.