Greenland Ice Sheet

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf sea ice
gptkbp:annualMassLoss hundreds of gigatons
gptkbp:area about 1,710,000 square kilometers
gptkbp:contains gptkb:Camp_Century
gptkb:Dye_3
gptkb:Helheim_Glacier
gptkb:Jakobshavn_Glacier
gptkb:Kangerlussuaq_Glacier
gptkb:NEEM_Camp
gptkb:Petermann_Glacier
gptkb:Sermeq_Kujalleq
gptkb:Store_Glacier
gptkb:Summit_Camp
gptkb:Russell_Glacier
crevasses
freshwater
methane hydrates
ice ridges
microbial life
moulins
ablation zones
ancient air bubbles
bedrock
cryoconite holes
dust layers
firn
ice cores
ice divides
ice domes
ice shelves (small, limited)
ice streams
outlet glaciers
paleoclimate records
snow accumulation zones
subglacial canyons
subglacial lakes
subglacial mountains
subglacial rivers
surface lakes
gptkbp:covers about 80% of Greenland's surface
gptkbp:elevation up to 3,216 meters
gptkbp:endDate marine-terminating glaciers
gptkbp:flowsThrough Greenland's coast
gptkbp:formed gptkb:Pleistocene_epoch
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Greenland Ice Sheet
gptkbp:iceCoreRecords climate history
gptkbp:largestCity ice mass in the Northern Hemisphere
gptkbp:location gptkb:Greenland
gptkbp:losingMassSince 1990s
gptkbp:meltingAcceleratedBy global warming
gptkbp:meltingContributesTo global sea level rise
gptkbp:meltingSeason summer
gptkbp:monitors gptkb:NASA
gptkb:ESA
gptkbp:secondLargest ice body in the world
gptkbp:studiedBy glaciologists
gptkbp:subjectOf climate change research
gptkbp:surfaceMeltObservedBy satellites
gptkbp:thickness about 2,000 meters
over 3,000 meters
gptkbp:volume about 2,850,000 cubic kilometers
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Greenland
gptkb:Jakobshavn_Glacier
gptkb:Petermann_Glacier
gptkb:Humboldt_Glacier
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5