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Climate scientist and glaciologist @dmidk, working on Greenland, Arctic and Antarctic climate and ice 🇪🇺 🇩🇰 🇬🇧 Views my own but freely shared.
Jul 30, 2019 10 tweets 8 min read
Amazing footage - apropos this and the Watson River flood of 2012, my colleagues and I were inspired to write a paper looking at the potential for high runoff events in the future in this paper researchgate.net/publication/32… In our future #climate simulations the region in western #Greenland that includes #Kangerlussuaq from the #icesheet to the shores of the #DavisStrait we show how melt + runoff of early 2000s was outpacing mid-century projections*

*Caveat: only one GCM #ECEARTH shown here