A Retrospective, Iterative, Geometry-Based (RIGB) tilt-correction method for radiation observed by automatic weather stations on snow-covered surfaces: Application to Greenland

• Main Authors: Wang, W, Zender, CS, Van As, D, Smeets, PCJP, Van Den Broeke, MR
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2016
• Subjects: Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences; Oceanography; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Greenland; Kangerlussuaq; glacier; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7195850m

Surface melt and mass loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet may play crucial roles in global climate change due to their positive feedbacks and large fresh-water storage. With few other regular meteorological observations available in this extreme environment, measurements from automatic weather stations...