By Guy Paxman and Bethan Davies The Greenland Ice Sheet is a huge mass of ice on the island of Greenland. In places, the ice is more than 3 km thick, and there are more than two thousand trillion tonnes of ice. If all the ice melted, this would be enough to raise global sea …
All photographs courtesy of and credit to Jeremy Harbeck (NASA). These photographs are provided as a resource alongside the Greenland StoryMap Collection.
In this interview, Guy Paxman and Bethan Davies discuss the hidden landscapes beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet, and why this is important for understanding the polar ice sheet. In this video, Dr Guy Paxman and Dr Bethan Davies discuss the exciting hidden mountains and valleys underneath the Greenland Ice Sheet. This landscape is covered by …
Click the image below to access the Hidden Landscapes of Greenland StoryMap Collection The Greenland StoryMap Collection was a collaboration between Guy Paxman, Edmund Lea and Bethan Davies.
The Greenland StoryMap Collection targets the following areas of the 2023-2024 AQA Geography A-Level specifications. 1: Physical Geography: Water and Carbon Cycles The water cycle: Cryosphere. The StoryMaps introduce students to the Greenland Ice Sheet, a major component of the global cryosphere and a significant store of water (7% of the Earth’s freshwater). Students will …
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Here is a scheme of work to aid teachers in lesson planning for A-Level Geography (16-18 years old). This scheme of work covers three A-Level lessons, each assumed to be one double lesson long. Lesson One covers StoryMap 1: Where is Greenland. Lesson Two covers StoryMap 2: What lies beneath the ice of Greenland? Lesson …
Introducing the Hidden Landscapes of Greenland StoryMap Collection Here is a collection of four Greenland StoryMaps covering the landscape beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet, launched as a collection in May 2024. They are suitable for UK GCSE to A-level (age ~16 to 18). The StoryMaps are presented alongside supportive material including a video interview, images …
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The outlet glaciers of the Greenland Ice Sheet are receding, calving more icebergs, and flowing faster. Further in land, the ice sheet is thinning, and there is more surface melt. The Greenland Ice Sheet is drained by outlet glaciers that flow through deep fjords to the ocean. In the image below, you can see an …
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By Dr Tom Slater, University of Leeds, UK How does mass balance vary over Greenland? The mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet is the net difference between ice gains through snowfall, and ice losses through melting at its surface or underneath its floating ice tongues, and through the calving of icebergs from glaciers flowing …
By Lauren Rawlins, University of York Since the early 1990’s, the amount of meltwater on the Greenland Ice Sheet has dramatically increased due to rising air temperatures from climatic warming and darkening of the ice surface (1). Observations from satellite imagery over this time have seen the supraglacial hydrology system become more extensive, form further …
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