{"id":220297,"date":"2014-06-13T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"cd6eaa13e2b02f9c4383eda25396a356"},"modified":"2014-06-13T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T08:00:00","slug":"southwestern-coast-of-greenland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=220297","title":{"rendered":"Southwestern coast of Greenland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/06\/southwestern_coast_of_greenland\/14572155-1-eng-GB\/Southwestern_coast_of_Greenland_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nOn the southwestern coast of Greenland, multiple ice streams that drain the Greenland ice sheet are pictured in this satellite image.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCovering more than 2 000 000 sq km, Greenland is the world\u2019s largest island and home to the second largest ice sheet after Antarctica.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nScientists used data from Earth-observing satellites have discovered that the rate of ice sheet melting is increasing. Between 1992 and 2012, Greenland was responsible for adding about 7 mm to the average global sea level. Many areas in Greenland \u2013 especially along the coast \u2013 are losing up to one metre of ice thickness per year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMelting ice sheets caused by rising temperatures and the subsequent rising of sea levels is a devastating consequence of climate change, especially for low-lying coastal areas.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn addition, the increased influx of freshwater into oceans affects the salinity, which in turn impacts global ocean currents \u2013 a major player in the regulating of our climate.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the lower part of the image, we can see icebergs speckling the waters of a fjord, with the mountainous Nuussuaq Peninsula visible along the bottom of the image.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image was acquired by Landsat-8 satellite\u2019s Operational Land Imager on 12 June 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/06\/southwestern_coast_of_greenland\/14572155-1-eng-GB\/Southwestern_coast_of_Greenland_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nOn the southwestern coast of Greenland, multiple ice streams that drain the Greenland ice sheet are pictured in this satellite image.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCovering more than 2 000 000 sq km, Greenland is the world\u2019s largest island and home to the second largest ice sheet after Antarctica.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nScientists used data from Earth-observing satellites have discovered that the rate of ice sheet melting is increasing. Between 1992 and 2012, Greenland was responsible for adding about 7 mm to the average global sea level. Many areas in Greenland \u2013 especially along the coast \u2013 are losing up to one metre of ice thickness per year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMelting ice sheets caused by rising temperatures and the subsequent rising of sea levels is a devastating consequence of climate change, especially for low-lying coastal areas.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn addition, the increased influx of freshwater into oceans affects the salinity, which in turn impacts global ocean currents \u2013 a major player in the regulating of our climate.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the lower part of the image, we can see icebergs speckling the waters of a fjord, with the mountainous Nuussuaq Peninsula visible along the bottom of the image.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image was acquired by Landsat-8 satellite\u2019s Operational Land Imager on 12 June 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}