Good morning, fellow "weather geeks" ! :)

[steve2470]

One who passionately engages in one or more things to extreme levels. A commonly ascribed term to people in the field of computer programming, but one does not have to be in a technical field to be a geek. The only criteria is an intense level of interest in something, often to a highly specialized degree.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=geek

I have been interested in weather since I was a teenager. I was never so interested to pursue an academic degree in metereology or atmospheric physics, but I have educated myself a bit. I have a lot to learn.

Anyone here in academia or the private sector doing metereology-related work ? It must be very fascinating. Is there a specific topic or question that you would like to see researched more ?

The below topic really bothers me.

Greenland's ice sheet has melted to a point of no return, according to new study

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/14/weather/greenland-ice-sheet/index.html

Greenland's ice sheet has melted to a point of no return, and efforts to slow global warming will not stop it from disintegrating. That's according to a new study by researchers at Ohio State University.

"The ice sheet is now in this new dynamic state, where even if we went back to a climate that was more like what we had 20 or 30 years ago, we would still be pretty quickly losing mass," Ian Howat, co-author of the study and a professor at Ohio State University, said.

Greenland's ice sheet dumps more than 280 billion metric tons of melting ice into the ocean each year, making it the greatest single contributor to global sea level rise, according to Michalea King, the lead author of the study and researcher at Ohio State University.

The ice loss has been so massive in recent years, she said, that it has caused a measurable change in the gravitational field over Greenland.

eta: I guess the above topic is more in the climatology realm.

[MontanaMama]

1. This takes my breath away.

280 billion metric tons of melting ice into the ocean each year? That’s hard to wrap my head around. Wow.