@inbook{d36936c46ea246afb76809891f82dcc3,
title = "Greenland ice sheet",
abstract = "Estimates of the spatial extent of ice surface melt across the Greenland ice (GrIS sheet) during the pe-riod 1979–2016 are derived from brightness tempera-tures measured by the Special Sensor Microwave Im-ager (SSMI) and the SSMI/Sounder (SSMIS) passive microwave radiometers (e.g., Mote 2007; Tedesco et al. 2013). These observations indicate that 2016 extended the overall increasing melting trend, although it was not a record-breaking year in terms of melt extent and duration. The updated trend for melt extent over the entire Greenland ice sheet for the period 1979–2016 is +15 800 ± 2300 km2 yr−1. ",
author = "M. Tedesco and J.E. Box and J. Cappelen and R.S. Fausto and X. Fettweis and T. Mote and C.J.P.P. Smeets and {van As}, D. and {van de Wal}, R.S.W. and I. Velicogna",
year = "2017",
month = aug,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1175/2017BAMSStateoftheClimate.1",
language = "English",
series = "Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society",
publisher = "American Meteorological Society",
number = "8",
pages = "S136--S140",
editor = "Jessica Blunden and Arndt, {Derek S.}",
booktitle = "State of the climate in 2016",
address = "United States",
}