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Meltwater refreezing in the accumulation area of the Greenland ice sheet: Pâkitsoq, summer 1991

R.J Braithwaite, W. T. Pfeffer, Heinz Blatter, N. F. Humphrey

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There is public concern that warmer climate in the future may cause extra melting of glaciers, including the Greenland ice sheet, with a resulting rise in World sea level (Warrick & Oerlemans, 1990). Recent estimates of sea level rise from Greenland include 0.36–0.48 mm/year per °C temperature rise (Braithwaite & Olesen, 1990) but much work is still needed to make reliable forecasts.

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Key concepts: Greenland ice sheet, Meltwater, Future sea level, Ice sheet, Glacier, Oceanography, Climatology, Ice caps