Several profiles show fluvial-type incisions of several tens of meters (up to 54 m) associated to a widespread erosion surface.
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The authors and independent experts familiar with the research stressed that the findings did not preclude the possibility that more widespread surface melting could eventually destabilize big areas of Greenland, the world's second largest ice storehouse.
'Current global studies project the Antarctic ice sheet will remain too cold for widespread surface melting and is expected to gain in mass due to increased snowfall,' states the draft version of the report.
"There is still a risk of heavy, thundery showers in central and eastern areas of England on Sunday, which could lead to some local, rather than widespread, surface water issues in the heaviest downpours," she said.
Unusually warm weather in Greenland has triggered widespread surface melt and darkened the lower portions of the country's ice sheet.
The phylogenetic relationships between this widespread surface species and its troglobite relatives have not been investigated previously.
A high-pressure ridge brings relatively warm southerly winds over the western flank of the ice sheet causing widespread surface melting [ Nghiem et al., 2012].
The occurrence of phylogenetically-nested troglomorphic populations of spring salamanders (genus Gyrinophilus) within the geographic ranges of more widespread surface forms has been invoked as evidence for speciation with gene flow, and thus, supportive of an adaptive-shift hypothesis [ 72].
Last month, an unusually warm weather system swept across Greenland, triggering a widespread melting of surface ice and snow that typically occurs only once in a lifetime.
