As part of a comprehensive survey of Greenland'sglaciers that was published in 2006, scientists documented that the mass balance—the sum of gains through snow accumulation and losses through iceberg calving and melting—of Kong Oscar and Greenland's other north-western glaciers was strongly negative between 1996 and 2005: they lost more ice than they gained.[2] The pattern was similar to the ice sheet as a whole, which has been losing ice mass at an accelerating pace in the past decade.[2]
king, oscar, glacier, danish, kong, oscar, gletscher, large, glacier, avannaata, municipality, northwestern, coast, greenland, kong, oscar, gletschernatural, colour, image, showing, heavily, crevassed, terminus, location, within, greenlandtypetidewater, glacie. King Oscar Glacier Danish Kong Oscar Gletscher 1 is a large glacier in the Avannaata Municipality on the northwestern coast of Greenland King Oscar GlacierKong Oscar GletscherNatural colour image showing the heavily crevassed terminus of the King Oscar Glacier Location within GreenlandTypeTidewater glacierLocationGreenlandCoordinates76 02 N 59 40 W 76 03 N 59 67 W 76 03 59 67Area21 134 km2 8 200 sq mi TerminusMelville BayStatusRetreating Contents 1 Geography 2 Status 3 See also 4 ReferencesGeography EditThe King Oscar Glacier is one of several glaciers that drain the north western part of the Greenland Ice Sheet 2 into Melville Bay It flows roughly southwestwards between the Peary Glacier to the northwest and the Nordenskiold Glacier to the southeast Map of Northwestern GreenlandStatus EditAs part of a comprehensive survey of Greenland s glaciers that was published in 2006 scientists documented that the mass balance the sum of gains through snow accumulation and losses through iceberg calving and melting of Kong Oscar and Greenland s other north western glaciers was strongly negative between 1996 and 2005 they lost more ice than they gained 2 The pattern was similar to the ice sheet as a whole which has been losing ice mass at an accelerating pace in the past decade 2 See also EditList of glaciers in GreenlandReferences Edit Kong Oscar Gletscher Mapcarta Retrieved 22 April 2016 a b c Kong Oscar Glacier Greenland NASA This Greenland location article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title King Oscar Glacier amp oldid 947035440, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
