The water south of Greenland has been cooling, so what causes that?
Real Climate
DECEMBER 17, 2022
Sea surface temperature trend 1993 – 2018, from European Atlas of the Seas. Here we start by taking the Greenland mass loss rate into the ocean, times the temperature difference between the meltwater and the water it replaces. Let’s compare two possibilities by a back-of-envelope calculation. (1) Greenland ice melt.
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