image: The midnight sun casts a golden glow on an iceberg and its reflection in Disko Bay, Greenland. Much of Greenland’s annual mass loss occurs through calving of icebergs such as this. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 30, 2012, issue of Science Express, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Shepherd at The University of Leeds in Leeds, UK, and colleagues was titled, "A Reconciled Estimate of Ice-Sheet Mass Balance." view more
Credit: Image courtesy of Ian Joughin