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Warm Weather Brings Major Melting to Greenland

Melting was provoked by a bubble of warm air that moved over Greenland after delivering unseasonably warm temperatures to Europe.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using GEOS-5 data from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA GSFC, and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published August 2, 2019
Data acquired July 20 - 30, 2019

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Model