glacial melt
Frozen mass shrinking
Glacial melt is water released when glaciers and ice sheets lose mass due to warming temperatures.
The term appears frequently in climate discussions: Glacial melt is accelerating in Greenland and Antarctica.
The resulting water contributes to sea level rise and affects ocean currents.
Scientists track glacial melt to predict coastal flooding.
- ice coreGlacial sample revealing past
- permafrostPerpetually frozen earth layer
- sea iceFrozen ocean surface
- tundraFrigid treeless biome
- ablationRemoval by cutting, melting
flooding · global warming · climate crisis · snowmelt · ice sheets · meltwater · fresh water · calving · glacial lake · moulin · water cycle · runoff · thermal expansion · polar regions · polar bear · sea-level rise · moraine · iceberg
- ArcticArctic Circle, Arctic Ocean, Arctic wildlife, Arctic exploration, Arctic research
- climateclimate change, climate, weather, global warming, temperature
- ice and snowiceberg, ice floe, icicle, sea ice, pack ice
- polar regionsAntarctica, polar bears, Arctic Ocean, glaciers, Arctic
- Eco-crisesclimate change, global warming, oil spill, deforestation, biodiversity loss
- meltingthaw, thawing, defrosting, defrost, liquefaction
phase transition direction
glacial meltfreezing
Extremely cold
refreezing · ice formation · glaciation · frost formation · solidification