Changing Greenland icesheet height 1995-2017

On average Greenland lost 255 gigatonnes of ice each year between 2003 and 2016. Almost all of the ice loss was due to changes in surface mass budget, with thinning found virtually everywhere. At some locations, the ice sheet surface decreased by over two and a half metres per year between 1995 and 2017 based on measurements using space-borne radar altimeters.

Read more: An Integrated View of Greenland Ice Sheet Mass Changes