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OMG: Is the Ocean Melting the Ice?

Oceanographers and ice experts have begun a five-year field campaign to study how the ocean might be melting Greenland’s icy edges.


NASA Earth Observatory map by Joshua Stevens, using Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) data courtesy of Josh Willis/JPL. Photograph by Josh Willis. Caption compiled by Mike Carlowicz from reporting by Patrick Lynch and Carol Rasmussen, NASA Earth Science Communications.

Published April 5, 2016
Data acquired 2016

Source:
In situ Measurement