{"id":40773,"date":"2022-08-31T12:50:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T02:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=40773"},"modified":"2022-08-31T12:50:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T02:50:34","slug":"greenland-just-gained-a-record-smashing-7-gigatons-of-snow-ice-in-one-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=40773","title":{"rendered":"Greenland Just Gained A Record Smashing 7 Gigatons of Snow Ice In One Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-40774\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Greenland_Snow_Ice_Gain-166x300.jpg\" alt=\"Greenland Snow Ice Gain\" width=\"582\" height=\"1052\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Impressive surface mass balance (SMB) readings\u2013a calculation to determine the \u2018health\u2019 of a glacier\u2013\u2013have been posted across the Greenland ice sheet all season, particularly during the so-called summer \u2018melt\u2019 season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Case in point is yesterday\u2019s (Aug 29\u2019s) record-smashing\u00a0<strong>7 Gigaton GAIN<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 a reading that would be impressive and at time of year, but one that has entered the books as the largest ever daily gain during the summer (with data extending back to the 1980s).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"4EY2a8jXzx\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/electroverse.co\/greenlands-record-gains-major-stratospheric-cooling-event-over-southern-hemisphere\/\">Greenland Just Gained A Record-Smashing 7 Gigatons Of Snow\/Ice; + A Major Stratospheric Cooling Event Is Unfolding Across The Entire Southern Hemisphere&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Greenland Just Gained A Record-Smashing 7 Gigatons Of Snow\/Ice; + A Major Stratospheric Cooling Event Is Unfolding Across The Entire Southern Hemisphere&#8230;&#8221; &#8212; Electroverse\" src=\"https:\/\/electroverse.co\/greenlands-record-gains-major-stratospheric-cooling-event-over-southern-hemisphere\/embed\/#?secret=wTBAImTJxv#?secret=4EY2a8jXzx\" data-secret=\"4EY2a8jXzx\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impressive surface mass balance (SMB) readings\u2013a calculation to determine the \u2018health\u2019 of a glacier\u2013\u2013have been posted across the Greenland ice sheet all season, particularly during the so-called summer \u2018melt\u2019 season. Case in point is yesterday\u2019s (Aug 29\u2019s) record-smashing\u00a07 Gigaton GAIN\u00a0\u2014 a reading that would be impressive and at time of year, but one that has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=40773\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greenland Just Gained A Record Smashing 7 Gigatons of Snow Ice In One Day!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40775,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40773\/revisions\/40775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}