The Greenland ice sheet is melting at more than double the rate it did a decade ago, according to researchers from Kansas University and NASA.

The research of Pannir Kanagaratnam, of KU’s Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, and Eric Rignot, of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, appears in today’s issue of Science magazine.

The researchers write that the glacier loss is increasing with time and is concentrated along channels occupied by outlet glaciers that discharge into the sea.

Using satellites and radar developed at KU, the researchers conducted the first known comprehensive survey of glacial ice discharge rates in Greenland over the past decade, according to KU.

Researchers at the KU Center are developing new tools and ways to better understand what is happening to the globe’s polar ice sheets.