3B Meteo, an Italian weather forecasting portal, has chosen Greenland to collect, disseminate and witness alarming data on ongoing climate change and has decided to travel there in order to assess the situation up close. The Italian team will move to the Greenland ice from June 16-29 to monitor and shine a spotlight on an alarming situation that directly affects everyone. There, through the work of the operators and meteorologists, data and evidence on ice melt will be collected. As a matter of fact, those circulating to date on the subject are truly alarming. Since the late 1990s, the Greenland ice sheet has been losing mass due to surface melting, but also due to ice retreat. The results of 3B Meteo's studies will be crucial for assessing and studying processes of adaptation to change in the future, especially for coastal cities. The protagonist of the studies, then, will be meltwater, which, before reaching the sea, undergoes tortuous processes interacting in complex ways with the ice sheet. Depending on the orography and the type of snow and ice layer present, meltwater organizes itself into rivulets and rivers that can turn into lakes during the warm season and vary in size. These water deposits, in turn, can sculpt the ice sheet and deform it.
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