A change in the status of the Greenland Inland Ice

Abstract

Observations on the status of the Greenland ice cover are registered at the Geological Survey of Greenland (GGU) on a routine basis. During the past two decades studies have been particularly related to technical activities such as hydro-electric power, but more recently there has been increasing interest in the significance of glacier variations as indicators of climatic change. However, whereas local glacier variations are usually related to climatic changes on the time scale of a few decades or centuries, documented changes in the status of the margins of the Inland Ice in the literature are mainly related to long term climatic fluctuations on the time scale of thousands of years or more.