{"646688":{"#nid":"646688","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Can Extreme Melt Destabilize Ice Sheets?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENearly a decade ago, global news outlets reported vast ice melt in the Arctic as sapphire lakes glimmered across the previously frozen Greenland Ice Sheet, one of the most important contributors to sea-level rise. A \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-021-22656-5\u0022\u003Enew study\u003C\/a\u003E reveals\u0026nbsp;the long-term impact of that extreme melt.\u0026nbsp;Using a new approach to ice-penetrating radar data, a team of scientists, including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/chu-dr-wing-winnie\u0022\u003EWinnie Chu\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, has shown\u0026nbsp;that this melting left behind a contiguous layer of refrozen ice inside the snowpack.\u0026nbsp;Most importantly, the formation of the melt layer changed the ice sheet\u0026rsquo;s behavior by reducing its ability to store future meltwater.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-04-20 18:56:37","changed_gmt":"2021-04-20 18:56:37","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"impact to the state","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/522383\/can-extreme-melt-destabilize-ice-sheets\/","dateline":{"date":"2021-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"EAS"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"185774","name":"Winnie Chu"},{"id":"187617","name":"Greenland Ice Sheet"},{"id":"181787","name":"ice melt"},{"id":"182857","name":"Meltwater"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}