Ablation observations for 2008–2011 from the Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE)

• Published in: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) Bulletin
• Main Authors: Fausto, Robert S., van As, Dirk
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) 2012
• Subjects: Greenland; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://geusbulletin.org/index.php/geusb/article/view/4765; https://doi.org/10.34194/geusb.v26.4765

Recent estimates from the glaciological community agree that the Greenland ice sheet is losing mass at an accelerated pace due to climate change (Velicogna 2009; Khan et al. 2010; Rignot et al. 2011). This has caught the attention of the public and policy makers due to the potential impact on sea-level rise (Dahl-Jensen et al. 2009). The mass loss can be attributed approximately equally to increases in meltwater runoff from surface melt and iceberg production (van den Broeke et al. 2009).