Delta progradation in Greenland driven by increasing glacial mass loss

Mette Bendixen (), Lars Lønsmann Iversen, Anders Anker Bjørk, Bo Elberling, Andreas Westergaard-Nielsen, Irina Overeem, Katy R. Barnhart, Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Jason E. Box, Jakob Abermann, Kirsty Langley and Aart Kroon
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Mette Bendixen: Center for Permafrost (CENPERM), University of Copenhagen
Lars Lønsmann Iversen: Freshwater Biology, University of Copenhagen
Anders Anker Bjørk: Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
Bo Elberling: Center for Permafrost (CENPERM), University of Copenhagen
Andreas Westergaard-Nielsen: Center for Permafrost (CENPERM), University of Copenhagen
Irina Overeem: Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado
Katy R. Barnhart: University of Colorado
Shfaqat Abbas Khan: DTU Space, National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark
Jason E. Box: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS)
Jakob Abermann: Asiaq Greenland Survey
Kirsty Langley: Asiaq Greenland Survey
Aart Kroon: Center for Permafrost (CENPERM), University of Copenhagen

Nature, 2017, vol. 550, issue 7674, 101-104

Abstract: Climate change has the potential to erode coastlines, but a rediscovered archive of aerial photographs from the Second World War shows that in southern Greenland, deltas have recently extended seaward.

Date: 2017
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