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Til tross for navnet er Gr\u00f8nland nesten helt dekket av et enormt isdekke. Data fra flere ESA-satellitter tyder imidlertid p\u00e5 at dette hvite teppet smelter raskere enn forventet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Den nyeste studien av Gr\u00f8nlands isbreer bygger p\u00e5 data som er samlet inn av fire satellitter i bane rundt Jorden mellom 1996 og 2005. ESAs europeiske fjernm\u00e5lingssatellitter ERS-1 og ERS-2, ESAs Envisat og Canadas Radarsat-1 er alle utstyrt med radarinstrumenter som kan observere overflaten b\u00e5de dag og natt, selv om det er tett skydekke.<\/p>\n

Spesielt var Eric Rignot fra NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory og forskeren Pannir Kanagaratnam ved University of Kansas interessert i \u00e5 m\u00e5le endringer i h\u00f8yden p\u00e5 Gr\u00f8nlands iskappe.<\/p>\n

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Envisat-bilde av Rinks Isbrae-breen, Gr\u00f8nland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ved \u00e5 analysere satellittdataene fant forskerne ut at isbreene i S\u00f8r- og Midt-Gr\u00f8nland flyter raskere mot havet. I takt med klimaoppvarmingen har mengden is som de f\u00f8rer ut i Atlanterhavet blitt fordoblet de siste 10 \u00e5rene. Forskerne beregner at Gr\u00f8nland bidrar med om lag 0,5 mm per \u00e5r til den globale havniv\u00e5stigningen p\u00e5 om lag 2,5 mm per \u00e5r.<\/p>\n

Fremtidige studier som benytter satellitter som Envisat og ERS vil gi viktig informasjon om hvordan isdekket og havniv\u00e5et utvikler seg p\u00e5 lang sikt.<\/p>\n

Gr\u00f8nland er verdens st\u00f8rste \u00f8y. Isdekket dekker nesten 2 millioner kvadratkilometer og har en gjennomsnittlig tykkelse p\u00e5 2,3 km. Hvis all isen smeltet, ville det globale havniv\u00e5et stige med opptil syv meter.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite its name, Greenland is almost entirely covered by a huge sheet of ice. However, data from several ESA satellites suggest that this white blanket is melting faster than expected. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"esa_banner_image":"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2006\/02\/envisat_image_of_south_greenland2\/17899607-2-eng-GB\/Envisat_image_of_South_Greenland.jpg","esa_banner_description":"Envisat image of South Greenland","esa_banner_credit":"ESA","esa_banner_licence":"ESA Standard Licence","esa_banner_detail_url":"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2006\/02\/Envisat_image_of_South_Greenland2","esa_external_url":"","esa_external_new_window":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true},"categories":[42,10,66],"tags":[],"panel":[],"language":[],"age":[],"duration":[],"resource_type":[],"audience":[],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earth","category-learn","category-water-world"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4779,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions\/4779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"panel","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panel?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"age","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"duration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/duration?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"resource_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource_type?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}