Antarctic Ice Cover Has Grown In Past Two Decades: Study
So far, we have heard that climate change is causing melting down of ice sheet in Antarctica. This affect of climate change is said to be most devastating in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and the glaciers along the Antarctic Peninsula. But now, a new study has shown that Antarctica's ice has grown over past two or more decades.
But several experts have shown their disagreement on the results of a recent study by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). They said the research refute all the previously conducted scientific investigations, including the ones that were performed by NASA researchers themselves.
They said that the study majorly opposes the satellite measurements made by NASA’s GRACE mission. Eric Rignot from the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory also disputed the study saying that it does not provide any quality data that could support the claims made by the study authors.
Theodore Scambos, a senior researcher at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, at Boulder said the study should not be publicized.
Lead author of the study Jay Zwally, a glaciologist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies said the data used for their research was founded on enhanced models that were not employed in past investigations.
He also said that if these models will be applied to other data then the results would match his more accurate claims about the real conditions of Antarctica's ice sheets.