Jonathan Bamber's work on Greenland run-off published in New Scientist
11 October 2012
Jonathan Bamber
More fresh water isn't always a good thing. The volume of fresh water gushing into the Atlantic from Greenland has increased in the past few decades. The water will interfere with Atlantic currents and may even reduce the ocean's ability to store carbon.
"Greenland has been losing increasing amounts of mass," says Jonathan Bamber of the University of Bristol in the UK. What had been unclear was how much of that was due to losing water to the ocean, as opposed to factors like reduced snowfall.
Read the full story in New Scientist (11 October 2012 - Michael Marshall) 'Run-off from Greenland may weaken carbon sink'.
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