Study: Night Clouds Promote Greenland Ice Melt

Greenland is melting at record rates, and scientists want to know why.   “The Arctic is our alarm bell for climate science since it experiences climate change sooner, and more intensely,” said Kristof Van Tricht, a graduate student at the KU Leuven Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences in Belgium and lead author of a new study in the journal Nature Communications. Van Tricht and his research team found that clouds play a bigger role than previously expected in...

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