Welsh scientists investigate the Greenland Ice Sheet
Welsh scientists are working on a project to understand the processes that lead to ice mass acceleration. The glaciologists will be drilling holes up to 1km deep into the Greenland Ice Sheet. The Greenland Ice Sheet is losing ice mass at an increasing pace which at present is around 200 cubic km per year, enough to raise global sea levels by 0.6 mm per year and according to the latest International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, most likely to render sea levels higher by 50cm within our century. This is a worrying prospect given the recent flood and storm damage in the UK. Research shows that in some places, the world's glaciers are melting up to 100 times faster than any time during the last 350 years, which will have significant implications for the future. Academics at Aberystwyth University have been awarded £340,000 to research into the processes that drive the fast flow of these glaciers because a growing body of evidence points to a strong response to both oceanog...