{"id":665963,"date":"2020-09-04T09:08:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T13:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=665963"},"modified":"2020-09-04T09:08:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T13:08:17","slug":"scientists-piece-together-nearly-two-decades-of-global-glacier-ice-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=665963","title":{"rendered":"Scientists piece together nearly two decades of global glacier ice loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have been concerned about a gap in satellite data that was being used to monitor mass balance changes of the world&#8217;s glaciers. Using alternative data, a new study has helped to fill the gap, creating a continuous record of rates of glacier retreat around the world since 2002 until present. It is important to monitor changes in mass balance\u2014the net changes in a glacier&#8217;s mass, after accounting for gains from snowfall and losses from melting and iceberg calving\u2014in order to generate robust predictions of sea level rise.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-09-scientists-piece-decades-global-glacier.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Scientists piece together nearly two decades of global glacier ice loss<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have been concerned about a gap in satellite data that was being used to monitor mass balance changes of the world&#8217;s glaciers. Using alternative data, a new study has&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665963","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=665963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665963\/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=665963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=665963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=665963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}