Abstract
The Greenland ice sheet is connected to the ocean through outlet glaciers that are in direct contact with the ocean. As global temperatures increase, many of these glaciers—particularly on Greenland's west coast—are melting at rates higher than those at which ice accumulates. This melting is typically attributed to rising temperatures of the West Greenland Current, which bathes the continental shelf. However, this assertion is based mostly on inference; remote conditions in Greenland, coupled with a lack of direct records of glacial behavior or seawater properties where the glacier meets the ocean, hinder studies that could pinpoint exactly how the glaciers are losing ice.
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