Greenland Ice sheet [in "State of the Climate in 2016"]

peer reviewed The mass of the Greenland Ice Sheet, which has the capacity to contribute ~7 m to sea level rise, reached a record low value. The onset of its surface melt was the second earliest, after 2012, in the 37-year satellite record.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Main Authors:	Tedesco, M., Box, J., Cappelen, J., Fausto, R., Fettweis, Xavier, Mote, Smeets, P., van As, D., van de Wal, R., Velicogna, I.
Format:	Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:	English
Published:	American Meteorological Society 2017
Subjects:	Physical chemical mathematical & earth Sciences Earth sciences & physical geography Physique chimie mathématiques & sciences de la terre Sciences de la terre & géographie physique Greenland Ice Sheet
Online Access:	https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/254765 https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/254765/1/StateoftheClimate2016_lowres.pdf https://doi.org/10.1175/2017BAMSStateoftheClimate.1

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Summary:	peer reviewed The mass of the Greenland Ice Sheet, which has the capacity to contribute ~7 m to sea level rise, reached a record low value. The onset of its surface melt was the second earliest, after 2012, in the 37-year satellite record.