Towards an assessment of the balance state of the Greenland Ice Sheet
The climate of Europe is strongly influenced by heat transport by ocean currents flowing from equatorial regions towards the Arctic (Clark et al. 2002). During recent years, research has been increasingly focused on factors affecting this circulation, e.g. the freshwater budget of the Arctic which i...
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ftjgeusbullet:oai:geusjournals.org:article/4791 2023-05-15T13:11:21+02:00 Towards an assessment of the balance state of the Greenland Ice Sheet Bøggild, Carl E. Mayer, Christoph Podlech, Steffen Taurisano, Andrea Nielsen, Søren 2004-07-20 application/pdf https://geusbulletin.org/index.php/geusb/article/view/4791 https://doi.org/10.34194/geusb.v4.4791 eng eng Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) https://geusbulletin.org/index.php/geusb/article/view/4791/10430 https://geusbulletin.org/index.php/geusb/article/view/4791 doi:10.34194/geusb.v4.4791 GEUS Bulletin; Vol. 4 (2004): Review of Survey activities 2003; 81-84 2597-2154 2597-2162 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Rapid Communication. Peer-reviewed Article. 2004 ftjgeusbullet https://doi.org/10.34194/geusb.v4.4791 2022-03-15T17:22:15Z The climate of Europe is strongly influenced by heat transport by ocean currents flowing from equatorial regions towards the Arctic (Clark et al. 2002). During recent years, research has been increasingly focused on factors affecting this circulation, e.g. the freshwater budget of the Arctic which is influenced by glacial meltwater from North and East Greenland outlet glaciers (Linthout et al. 2000, Mayer et al. 2000). Furthermore, the climate is affected by snow cover that, apart from its contribution to the freshwater budget, provides feedback effects in that it reflects most of the solar radiation. Apart from Arctic sea-ice cover, the Greenland Ice Sheet is the largest permanent ice- and snow-covered area in the northern hemisphere, with an area of 1.67 ×106 km2 and by far the largest storage of ice with a volume of 2.93 × 106 km3 (Bamber et al. 2001). Most of the mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet (the least known mass-balance parameter) occurs in the marginal region of the ice sheet, which is also the area where the largest changes in albedo occur. The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) has for many years carried out research along the Greenland Ice Sheet margin to monitor changes of mass balance and melt conditions. Article in Journal/Newspaper albedo Arctic East Greenland Greenland Ice Sheet Sea ice GEUS Bulletin (Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland) Arctic Greenland Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) Bulletin 4 81 84 |
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The climate of Europe is strongly influenced by heat transport by ocean currents flowing from equatorial regions towards the Arctic (Clark et al. 2002). During recent years, research has been increasingly focused on factors affecting this circulation, e.g. the freshwater budget of the Arctic which is influenced by glacial meltwater from North and East Greenland outlet glaciers (Linthout et al. 2000, Mayer et al. 2000). Furthermore, the climate is affected by snow cover that, apart from its contribution to the freshwater budget, provides feedback effects in that it reflects most of the solar radiation. Apart from Arctic sea-ice cover, the Greenland Ice Sheet is the largest permanent ice- and snow-covered area in the northern hemisphere, with an area of 1.67 ×106 km2 and by far the largest storage of ice with a volume of 2.93 × 106 km3 (Bamber et al. 2001). Most of the mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet (the least known mass-balance parameter) occurs in the marginal region of the ice sheet, which is also the area where the largest changes in albedo occur. The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) has for many years carried out research along the Greenland Ice Sheet margin to monitor changes of mass balance and melt conditions. |
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Bøggild, Carl E. Mayer, Christoph Podlech, Steffen Taurisano, Andrea Nielsen, Søren Towards an assessment of the balance state of the Greenland Ice Sheet |
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Bøggild, Carl E. Mayer, Christoph Podlech, Steffen Taurisano, Andrea Nielsen, Søren |
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Towards an assessment of the balance state of the Greenland Ice Sheet |
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Towards an assessment of the balance state of the Greenland Ice Sheet |
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Towards an assessment of the balance state of the Greenland Ice Sheet |
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