Environmental impact on Greenland glaciers

Abstract

The main emphasis of present investigations of Greenland glaciers concerns former climate oscillations and the variations in glacier cover related to these changes. The data acquired on climate and glacier variations provide a basis for prediction of future environmental consequences of climate changes. These include local change of ice cover and related coastal changes caused by variations in glacier load on the earth's crust in Greenland as well as global change of sea level in the oceans caused by the storage or release of melt water and calf ice from the Greenland ice cover.