Antarctic And Greenland Melting
December 2, 2012
Discover more about our planet with the Earth from Space video program. In this special edition, Andrew Shepherd from the University of Leeds and Erik Ivins from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory join the show to discuss our planet’s polar ice sheets.
Their new research shows that melting of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets has contributed 11.1 millimetres to global sea levels since 1992.
Topics:
Environment, Glaciology, Earth, Physical geography, Greenland, Sea level, Polar ice cap, Greenland ice sheet, Physical oceanography, Ice sheets, Geography
