Second only to Antarctica's frozen cap in size, Greenland's ice sheet is several million cubic kilometers of fresh water held in check by a combination of rock and sub-zero temperatures.
Until the late 20th century, odds were the amount of ice lost to the sea would be replaced by a dusting of precipitation.Just what determines Greenland's annual ice budget depends on numerous geological and meteorological features, many of which scientists are still vague on. Now an international team of researchers has fine-tuned their estimates on factors that hold the island's enormous reservoir of frozen water at bay.
If the worst year in the past two decades were to become representative of Greenland's water cycle, the commitment of ice loss could cause sea levels to creep up by around 78.2 centimeters .Based on Greenland's history of ice loss and accumulation, these could be seen as long-term predictions based on cycles that take place over thousands of years.
But short of a spontaneous ice age occurring, Greenland is locked into a debt of slowly melting ice for the foreseeable future.
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