Ice
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If you want to melt your
ice
cube, you have to get it wet, because water heats up easily in the microwave.
Here, she's used a pump to bring some of that water back to the
ice
sheet's surface.
So the water can stay hidden in the
ice
sheet in liquid form year after year.
One possible way for the water to reach the bedrock and from there the ocean is a crevasse, or a crack in the
ice.
Well, we recently discovered that there are cracks available in the Greenland
ice
sheet near this glacier aquifer.
You can fly over most of the Greenland
ice
sheet and see nothing, no cracks, no features on the surface, but as this helicopter flies towards the coast, the path that water would take on its quest to flow downhill, one crack appears, then another and another.
In our case, what are the equations for how
ice
cracks?
So I borrowed them, adapted them for ice, and then I had a numeric model for how a crevasse can fracture when filled with water from the aquifer.
As the aquifer water flows into the crevasse, some of it refreezes in the negative 15 degree Celsius
ice.
In our case, it is, and the aquifer water drives the crevasse all the way to the base of the
ice
sheet a thousand meters below.
The
ice
flows in complex ways.
In some places, the
ice
flows very fast.
There tends to be water at the base of the
ice
sheet here.
Now that we know the aquifer water is getting to the base of the
ice
sheet, the next question is: Is it making the
ice
itself flow faster into the ocean?
We're trying to uncover these mysteries hidden inside the Greenland
ice
sheet so that we can better plan for the sea level rise it holds.
The amount of
ice
that Greenland has lost since 2002 is just a small fraction of what that
ice
sheet holds.
Ice
sheets are immense, powerful machines that operate on long timescales.
This is the whaling camp here, we're about six miles from shore, camping on five and a half feet of thick, frozen pack
ice.
And the Eskimo community basically camps out on the edge of the
ice
here, waits for a whale to come close enough to attack.
And when it does, it throws a harpoon at it, and then hauls the whale up under the ice, and cuts it up.
This is the
ice
starting to freeze over.
It also has a higher concentration of salt, because the
ice
crystals that form trap water while leaving salt behind.
But I wasn't into selling whiskey; I was into selling
ice.
Well, we were going into the worst part of the last
ice
age.
The last
ice
age started roughly 120,000 years ago.
The Northern Hemisphere had massive growing
ice
sheets.
New York City, Chicago, Seattle, all under a sheet of
ice.
Most of Britain, all of Scandinavia, covered by
ice
several kilometers thick.
We weren't covered in
ice
in Africa.
The reason for that is that
ice
actually sucks moisture out of the atmosphere.
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