Extreme snowmelt in Northern Greenland during summer 2008

• Published in: Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
• Main Authors: Tedesco, Marco, Fettweis, Xavier, van den Broeke, Michiel, van de Wal, Roderik, Smeets, Paul
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: AGU 2008
• 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/2268/36746; https://doi.org/10.1029/2008EO410004

peer reviewed Extreme snowmelt occurred during summer 2008 over the northern part of the Greenland ice sheet, according to the analysis of microwave data recorded by the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) on board the F13 satellite of the U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP). New records of the number of melting days were also observed over large portions of the same areas (letters A and B in Figure 1).