Global warming: Arctic icebergs are melting twice as fast as expected, according to recent study

ENVIRONMENT And the less thick the sea ice, the less it prevents the ocean from warming the atmosphere in winter

In a recent disturbing study published in the journal The Cryosphere, the mass of icebergs in the Arctic is melting twice as fast as expected, according to surveys by University College London (UCL), the ice in key regions, especially coastal regions. melts 70-100% faster than usual.

On the off chance that there is such a distinction with the past outcomes, it is on the grounds that the specialists utilized later guides of the thickness of the snow over the ice, which this time consider the effect. many years of environmental change. The thickness of the pack ice is truth be told assessed by estimating the stature of the ice over the water, an estimation contorted by the measure of snow looming over the pack ice. 

Past computations dependent on 20 year old guides 

"The past computations of the ice thickness depended on a snow map last refreshed 20 years prior," said doctoral understudy Robbie Mallett, who drove the examination. "As the pack ice frames later and later in the year, the snow that covers it has less an ideal opportunity to collect," he proceeds. "Our estimations consider this diminishing interestingly and recommend that the ocean ice is dissolving quicker than we suspected."