As the heat wave that struck the southeastern United States made its way up to Greenland, the ice-covered island recorded over 2 billion tons of ice melt in just one day.
Greenland, which sits in between North America and Europe in the northern Atlantic Ocean is covered with snow year round. Historically, from June through August the island experiences a net loss in ice as warmer summer temperatures melt glacier snow/ice into the North Atlantic Ocean.
As Greenland ice continues to melt it perpetuates a positive feedback loop. Ice has a high albedo , which means it reflects back the vast majority of the sun's solar radiation and with it heat. You've experienced this if you've walked down the road barefoot on a hot summer day. The black asphalt is much hotter than the white concrete sidewalk. This is due to the difference in how much solar radiation white versus black reflects.
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