Helheim glacier

The glacier is the fastest flowing glacier along the eastern edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet, and one of the island's largest ocean-terminating rivers of ice, according to Nasa, another organisation that monitors the glacier. Helheim Glacier is named after the Vikings' world of the dead. After the buoy's last ...

This means that sunlight entering the atmosphere that would normally be reflected back into space by sea ice or snow and glaciers is instead being absorbed by dark surfaces like the ocean, land and rock. “The Arctic acts like a refrigerator for the entire Earth,” said Mathis. “So, it doesn't matter where you ...

In Greenland, Ward gets a close-up view of Helheim Glacier, one of the country's fastest-moving glaciers. Between August 2016 and August 2017, scientists say Helheim retreated two miles, the furthest retreat inland they have seen in a decade. Jason Box, an American climate scientist and professor in ...

The study from Helheim Glacier had a slightly different focus. Here we studied the sediments from Sermilik fjord in southeast Greenland, into which Helheim Glacier terminates. The fjord contains biochemical compounds from the Irminger Sea, which allowed us to reconstruct past sea surface temperatures ...

In 2015, Stearns received a $569,000 three-year grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation to place ATLAS — autonomous terrestrial laser scanning systems — on Helheim Glacier in Greenland. This system, Stearns said, will help monitor the changes occurring. “What the ATLAS sensor does is it enables ...

After a couple of commercial airline flights to Tasiilaq, Greenland, and a 40-minute helicopter ride to a remote fjord, Stearns plans to install a second Autonomous Terrestrial Laser Scanning system — dubbed ATLAS — to monitor rates of ice loss on the vital Helheim Glacier, a tidewater glacier undergoing ...

ABOVE VIDEO: This video shows in unprecedented detail how Greenland's massive Helheim Glacier has changed over 20 years, using data from instruments like the Airborne Topographic Mapper laser altimeter and the Digital Mapping System cameras, which fly every year on IceBridge missions, and ...

Scientists monitored the Helheim Glacier, a major outlet of the Greenland Ice Sheet, over 55 days from July to September 2013. They recorded 10 glacial earthquakes, some of which registered a magnitude of 5.0, and saw the glacier retreat by about 1 mile (1.5 kilometers) following the shaking events.