Greenland’s Ice Sheet May Be More Vulnerable to Climate Change Than Previously Thought

New models developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge suggests that portions of Greenland's ice sheet that sit atop soft ground could be more susceptible to global warming than areas atop hard rock.

For the first time, glaciologists at the University of Cambridge’s Scott Polar Research Institute incorporated new information about the porous characteristics of the sediment underneath Greenland's ice sheet in computer modeling.

Their findings, published Monday in Nature Communications , suggest that not only is the continental glacier vulnerable to the warming climate, but also to intensified rain events.

Greenland’s Ice Sheet May Be More Vulnerable to Climate Change Than Previously Thought