Low, thin clouds aided record Greenland ice melt
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 - 14:30
in Earth & Climate
By Charles Q. ChoiLiveScienceThe culprit behind the record-shattering level of ice melting in Greenland in 2012 may have been low, thin clouds, new research suggests.These novel findings, to be detailed in the Thursday's issue of the journal Nature, may help answer climate mysteries elsewhere in the Arctic, the researchers said.If the sheet of ice covering Greenland were to completely melt, such d...