NuukGreenland lost ice for the 30th straight year, 135 billion tonnes.
It is the largest present-day source of ice-driven sea level rise, Danish scientists write.
Snowfall still outweighed surface melt by 519 billion tonnes, but iceberg calving and glacier-front melting erased the gain.
It was not an extreme year, the Danish Meteorological Institute scientists said, with a cool start to summer.
A new report finds Greenland’s melt processes are increasingly replicated in Antarctica.
How each outlet framed it
- Carbon Brief
- reads the 30-year losing streak as non-extreme weather: cool start to summer and less melt, yet ~135bn tonnes lost, pointing to a fingerprint of climate change
Sources: Carbon Brief