Exploring seasonal accumulation bias in a west central Greenland ice core with observed and reanalyzed data

• Main Authors: Stacy E Porter, Ellen Mosley-Thompson
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Crawford; Crawford Point; Greenland; Greenland ice core; ice core; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1077.9432; http://research.bpcrc.osu.edu/Icecore/publications/Porter_Mosley-Thompson_J_Glaciol_2014.pdf

ABSTRACT. The seasonality of accumulation in west central Greenland is investigated to determine whether a summer bias exists in a multi-century ice core recovered from Crawford Point (CP). Such a bias would negatively affect the ice core's potential for reconstructing the history of winter cir...