Atmospheric summer teleconnections and Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass variations: Insights from MERRA-2

• Main Authors: Lim, YK, Schubert, SD, Nowicki, SMJ, Lee, JN, Molod, AM, Cullather, RI, Zhao, B, Velicogna, I
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2016
• Subjects: Greenland; surface mass balance; North Atlantic Oscillation; East Atlantic pattern; teleconnection; Arctic climate; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences; Arctic; Merra; Ice Sheet; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7b31803h

The relationship between leading atmospheric teleconnection patterns and Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) temperature, precipitation, and surface mass balance (SMB) are investigated for the last 36 summers (1979-2014) based on Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications version 2 reana...