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Earlier this month, the North Atlantic experienced a rare January hurricane, named Hurricane Alex. While Alex’s northward track kept it in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, it’s arrival in the waters south of Greenland coincided with a sudden outflowing of meltwater through a bay in the Western Greenland, indicating that the warm winds that accompanied Alex had triggered a melting event.
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A new study has discovered what is behind a new phenomenon that is being seen on the Greenland ice sheet in recent years, due to it’s accelerated melting: the formation of large rivers of fresh meltwater flowing on the ice sheet’s surface.
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