{"id":399023,"date":"2025-08-31T17:22:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T15:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=399023"},"modified":"2025-08-31T17:22:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T15:22:43","slug":"the-greenland-ice-sheet-mass-gains-again-exceed-mass-losses-in-2024-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=399023","title":{"rendered":"The Greenland Ice Sheet Mass Gains Again Exceed Mass Losses In 2024-\u201925"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NoTrickZone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Kenneth Richard<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another year, another well-above-average (1981-2010 mean) snow and ice accumulation on the Greenland ice sheet (indicated by the blue vs. gray trend lines, right chart).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The net mass gain (blue) again exceeded the net mass loss (red) during 2024-2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Greenland Ice Sheet melt percentage and surface temperature have been flat (to slightly declining) since 2002 (Fang et al., 2023<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Accurate monitoring of surface temperature and melting on the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) is important for tracking the ice sheet\u2019s mass balance as well as global and Arctic climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":399029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818252,691837637,691837639,691825216,691837638,691819765],"class_list":["post-399023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-greenland","tag-gris-greenland-ice-sheet","tag-land-surface-temperature-lst-2","tag-mass-gain","tag-mass-loss","tag-surface-temperature","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0AQM_1tPRgPm6PCcbGPwcIq-JhxnoYlTr6bCqrwBFuhUqYqQ6RSADriH7B86AnHqdIh-BrWwXCrXA7oreNpm1QxM-m-kvVTQobJRgVYA1P4GfDaQW8SNKqMRy8AxU6FcDnwvOQQrKeeXM1iEJTRbFCwMoOwkSog-1.jpeg?fit=1280%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1FNR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":276745,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=276745","url_meta":{"origin":399023,"position":0},"title":"Greenland\u2019s 2022-\u201923 Ice Coverage Well Above 1981-2010 Average Despite \u2018Global Boiling\u2019 Rhetoric","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"09\/01\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Since the early 2000s there has been no net change in the Greenland ice sheet mean annual surface temperature, as well as no net change in melt extent percentage.","rel":"","context":"In \"Greenland mass balance\"","block_context":{"text":"Greenland mass balance","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=greenland-mass-balance"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/00j_Iceberg_Sail_3-3-2018_3.jpeg?fit=1200%2C845&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/00j_Iceberg_Sail_3-3-2018_3.jpeg?fit=1200%2C845&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/00j_Iceberg_Sail_3-3-2018_3.jpeg?fit=1200%2C845&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/00j_Iceberg_Sail_3-3-2018_3.jpeg?fit=1200%2C845&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/00j_Iceberg_Sail_3-3-2018_3.jpeg?fit=1200%2C845&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":440478,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=440478","url_meta":{"origin":399023,"position":1},"title":"Greenland Ice Varies, Don\u2019t Panic 2026\u00a0Update","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"04\/19\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"The Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) is Earth's second-largest ice mass after Antarctica, spanning about 1.7 million km\u00b2 with an average thickness of roughly 2 km (and up to 3+ km in places). 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