image: Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone image showing dark, bare glacial ice surrounding a field camp [left] in the western sector of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The darkness of the bare ice motivated researchers to investigate how much of it was exposed during the summer using a satellite image archive that extends back to 2000. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 6th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by J. C. Ryan at Brown University in Providence, RI, and colleagues was titled, "Greenland Ice Sheet surface melt amplified by snowline migration and bare ice exposure." view more
Credit: [Credit: John C. Ryan, Brown University]