Surface mass-balance observations and automatic weather station data along a transect near Kangerlussuaq, West Greenland, edited by

• Main Authors: R S W Van De Wal, W Greuell, M R Van Den Broeke, C H Reijmer, J Oerlemans
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Greenland; Kangerlussuaq
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1046.2929; http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/%7Ewal00105/papers/waletal2005.pdf

, which is used for ice melting at a rate of typically 2 cm w.e. d -1 . Net radiation contributes 84% of the total energy used for summer melting averaged over the 5 years.