A Heatwave in Greenland

A Heatwave in Greenland

일주일전 유럽 전역에서 기록을 깨뜨린 열파로 그린란드로 유입된 최근의 비수기 온난한 기온은 전국의 82%를 차지하는 빙상의 

용융을 가속화하여 기록적인 속도로 물을 방출하고 있다. 

워싱턴 포스트 National Snow and Ice Data Center의 선임 연구원Ted Scambos에 따르면, 목요일에만 약 125억 톤의 용융수가 

바다로 흘러 들어와 1950년 이래 가장 높은 일일 총량이 될 것이라고 워싱턴 포스트는 보도했다. 

그린란드에서는 매년 여름 눈과 얼음이 녹으며 이 열파는 비정상적인 사건이었지만, 기후학자들은 전반적인 온난화 추세가 이러한 

사건을 심화시키고 앞으로 몇년안에 더 많은 가능성을 만들어 낼 것이라고 경고한다. 

AP통신은 2019년 6월 연구를 인용해 "그린란드에서만 얼음이 녹아 2100년까지 전 세계 해수면이 상승할 때 5~33센티미터(2~13인치)

가 추가될 것"이라고 밝혔다.

A large river of melting water flows on an ice sheet in western Greenland on August 1, 2019.

A boat carrying tourists motors past an iceberg at the mouth of the Ilulissat Icefjord during unseasonably warm weather 

on July 30, 2019, near Ilulissat, Greenland. 

A massive iceberg peeks out from behind fog in the Ilulissat Icefjord on August 3, 2019.

Braided meltwater rivers form on an ice sheet in western Greenland on August 1, 2019.

Meltwater in western Greenland drains into a moulin hole that empties into the ocean underneath the ice, photographed on August 1, 2019.

Meltwater flows into the fjord near Kangerlussaq in western Greenland on August 1, 2019.

Flowers bloom on a hillside along the Ilulissat Icefjord during unseasonably warm weather on July 30, 2019.

Visitors look out onto free-floating ice jammed into the Ilulissat Icefjord on July 30, 2019.

In this aerial view, ice that has broken off from Greenland's Eqip Sermia glacier drifts away from the glacier's 200-meter-tall face 

during unseasonably warm weather on August 2, 2019. 

Eqip Sermia is approximately 350 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, and while the calving of ice from its face is a natural process

 going back millions of years, the glacier's retreat of about three kilometers over the past 100 years is a new phenomenon.

This natural-color image made with the Operational Land Imager on the Landsat 8 satellite shows meltwater ponding 

on the surface of the ice sheet in northwestern Greenland, near the sheet’s edge, on July 30, 2019.

 While the heat wave broke in western Europe after a few days late last month, the extreme temperatures shifted north and 

caused massive ice melts in Greenland and the Arctic, according to Ruth Mottram, a climate scientist with the Danish Meteorological 

Institute.

A massive iceberg stands at the mouth of the Ilulissat Icefjord during a week of unseasonably warm weather on August 3, 2019.

In this aerial view, melting ice forms a lake on free-floating ice jammed into the Ilulissat Icefjord on July 30, 2019.

Inuit fishermen prepare a net as free-floating ice floats behind them at the mouth of the Ilulissat Icefjord on July 30, 2019. 

In this view from an airplane, rivers of meltwater carve into the Greenland ice sheet near the Sermeq Avangnardleq glacier 

on August 4, 2019, near Ilulissat. 

Meltwater rushes down from the Greenland ice sheet near the Sermeq Avangnardleq glacier on August 4, 2019.

Water drips from ice in the Ilulissat Icefjord during unseasonably warm weather on July 30, 2019.