Wednesday, 3 April 2013

Thin clouds drove Greenland’s record-breaking 2012 ice melt

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"Thin clouds drove Greenland’s record-breaking 2012 ice melt......“The July 2012 event was triggered by an influx of unusually warm air, but that was only one factor,” says Dave Turner, physical scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Severe Storms Laboratory. “In our paper we show that low-level clouds were instrumental in pushing temperatures up above freezing.”

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