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

• 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

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.