Seismometers detect small icebergs produced by Greenland’s glaciers
Front of Helheim Glacier in Greenland. Credit: Gordon Hamilton
By Alka Tripathy-Lang and Wendy Bohon
March 2, 2020
The iceberg-calving process is a key mechanism by which large volumes of ice are lost from Greenland glaciers, yet many details of this process were previously unknown. Now, scientists can learn more about glacial calving using seismic data from the Greenland Ice Sheet Monitoring Network (GLISN).
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