TY - JOUR
T1 - A century of climate variability and climate gradients from coast to ice sheet in West Greenland
AU - Taurisano, Andrea
AU - Bøggild, Carl Egede
AU - Karlsen, Håkon Gjessing
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - This work describes the temperature trends of the Nuuk fjord area during the last century and analyses the spatial variability of temperature and precipitation along the coast-inland gradient of the region. A better understanding of the climate of the coastal region of Greenland is important for ice sheet studies since significant thinning has recently been detected on local outlet glaciers with driving factors still to be identified. The glaciological reconstruction of the ice sheet mass balance has often made use of climate datasets from the coastal stations to substitute missing data from the inland areas. The information on the coast-inland gradient of temperature and precipitation hereafter provided is of relevance in other areas around the ice sheet as it represents a mean for increasing the accuracy of historical glacier-climate interactions. We therefore discuss climatological information from the automatic station that operated at the glacier throughout the 1980s as well as from other stations located along the fjord and with a longer coverage.
AB - This work describes the temperature trends of the Nuuk fjord area during the last century and analyses the spatial variability of temperature and precipitation along the coast-inland gradient of the region. A better understanding of the climate of the coastal region of Greenland is important for ice sheet studies since significant thinning has recently been detected on local outlet glaciers with driving factors still to be identified. The glaciological reconstruction of the ice sheet mass balance has often made use of climate datasets from the coastal stations to substitute missing data from the inland areas. The information on the coast-inland gradient of temperature and precipitation hereafter provided is of relevance in other areas around the ice sheet as it represents a mean for increasing the accuracy of historical glacier-climate interactions. We therefore discuss climatological information from the automatic station that operated at the glacier throughout the 1980s as well as from other stations located along the fjord and with a longer coverage.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=3042818563&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.0435-3676.2004.00226.x
DO - 10.1111/j.0435-3676.2004.00226.x
M3 - Article
SN - 0435-3676
VL - 86
SP - 217
EP - 224
JO - Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography
JF - Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography
IS - 2
ER -