[Arctic] Greenland Ice Sheet [in "State of the Climate in 2011"]

The duration of melting in 2011 was above average over much of Greenland, lasting up to ~30 days longer than the 1979–2010 average. Areas along the west and northwest coasts experienced the largest positive anomalies in the number of days when melting occurred (Fig. 5.10). The number of melting days...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tedesco, Marco, Box, J. E., Cappelen, J., Mote, T., van de Wal, R. S. W., Wahr, J.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Meteorological Society 2012
Subjects:
Hydrology
Meltwater
Geomorphology
Climatic changes
Mineralogy
Geology
Arctic
Greenland
Ice Sheet
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.7916/D8416X02
Description
Summary:The duration of melting in 2011 was above average over much of Greenland, lasting up to ~30 days longer than the 1979–2010 average. Areas along the west and northwest coasts experienced the largest positive anomalies in the number of days when melting occurred (Fig. 5.10). The number of melting days in 2011 estimated from spaceborne passive microwave observations (Tedesco 2007) did not, however, break the previous record set in 2010 (Tedesco et al. 2011); 2011 ranked sixth, after 2010, 2007, 1998, 2002, and 2005.

Similar Items