Ice sheets form through a process of glaciation, when the local climate is sufficiently cold that snow is able to accumulate from year to year. As the annual snow layers pile up, their weight gradually compresses … 展开

From the 1960s to the 1980s an area in the North Atlantic which included southern Greenland was one of the few locations in the world which showed cooling rather than warming. This location was relatively warmer in the 1930s and 1940s than in the decades immediately … 展开

Near-term
In 2021, the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report estimated that under SSP5-8.5, the scenario associated … 展开

• Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) Archived 26 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine
• Greenland Ice Cap, 1942–1944 Report at Dartmouth College Library
• Greenland Ice Cap literary Survey/Bibliography 1953 at … 展开

While there is evidence of large glaciers in Greenland for most of the past 18 million years, these ice bodies were probably similar to various smaller … 展开

• List of glaciers in Greenland
• Glaciation
• Climate change in the Arctic
• Sea level rise
• Arctic sea ice decline 展开