Greenland ice sheet

M. Tedesco; J.E. Box; J. Cappelen; R.S. Fausto; X. Fettweis; T. Mote; C.J.P.P. Smeets; D. van As; R.S.W. van de Wal; I. Velicogna

doi:10.1175/2017BAMSStateoftheClimate.1

Greenland ice sheet

M. Tedesco
, J.E. Box
, J. Cappelen
, R.S. Fausto
, X. Fettweis
, T. Mote
, C.J.P.P. Smeets
, D. van As
, R.S.W. van de Wal
, I. Velicogna

Department of Glaciology and Climate

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	State of the climate in 2016
Editors	Jessica Blunden, Derek S. Arndt
Publisher	American Meteorological Society
Pages	S136-S140
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1175/2017BAMSStateoftheClimate.1
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2017

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Series	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Number	8
Volume	98

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