Relationships of West Greenland supraglacial melt‐lakes with local climate and regional atmospheric circulation

• Published in: International Journal of Climatology
• Main Authors: Rowley, Nathan A., Carleton, Andrew M., Fegyveresi, John
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2019
• Subjects: Greenland; Ice Sheet; Kujalleq; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation; Sermeq Kujalleq
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.6262; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/joc.6262; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/joc.6262; https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/joc.6262

Abstract Along the west‐central Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) ablation zone, the time of annual maximum occurrence of surface melt‐lakes, or peak lake period (PLP) averages June 18–July 3. This study combines atmospheric reanalysis and automatic weather station data from the Greenland Climate Network t...