Regional climate-model performance in Greenland firn derived from in situ observations

• Published in: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) Bulletin
• Main Authors: Charalampidis, Charalampos, van As, Dirk, Langen, Peter L., Fausto, Robert S., Vandecrux, Baptiste, Box, Jason E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) 2016
• Subjects: Greenland; Harper; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://geusbulletin.org/index.php/geusb/article/view/4943; https://doi.org/10.34194/geusb.v35.4943

Recent record-warm summers in Greenland (Khan et al. 2015) have started affecting the higher regions of the ice sheet (i.e. the accumulation area), where increased melt has altered the properties of firn (i.e. multi-year snow). At high altitudes, meltwater percolates in the porous snow and firn, whe...