Gravity-based estimates of mass change have been extended by the recently launched GRACE Follow-On Satellites. The satellite record, combined with regional climate models, reveals that the Greenland Ice Sheet had lower mass loss in 2017–2018, only to return to a record-breaking mass loss in the summer of 2019.
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Mohajerani, Y. Record Greenland mass loss. Nat. Clim. Chang. 10, 803–804 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0887-9
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