melt ponds Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:05:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Melt Ponds Accelerate Ice Melting More Than Previously Thought https://www.greenoptimistic.com/melt-ponds-accelerate-ice-melting-more-than-previously-thought-20130119/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/melt-ponds-accelerate-ice-melting-more-than-previously-thought-20130119/#respond Sat, 19 Jan 2013 06:21:34 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=31719 This month, ice physicists at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have published their findings on light transmission through the Arctic sea ice in the scientific journal Geophysical Research Letters. Researchers found that more sunlight, and therefore energy, penetrates the areas where melt water collects on the ice that. […]

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