Greenland [in "State of the Climate in 2008"]

• Published in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
• Main Authors: Box, J., Bai, L., Benson, R., Bhattacharya, I., Bromwich, D., Cappelen, J., Decker, D., DiGirolamo, N., Fettweis, Xavier, Hall, D., Hanna, E., Mote, T., Tedesco, M., van de Wal, R., van den Broeke, M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Meteorological Society 2009
• 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; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/36758; https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/36758/1/chapter5.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-90-8-StateoftheClimate

peer reviewed An abnormally cold winter across the southern half of Greenland led to substantially higher west coast sea ice thickness and concentration. Even so, record-setting summer temperatures around Greenland, combined with an intense melt season (particularly across the northern ice sheet), led the 2008 Greenland climate to be marked by continued ice sheet mass deficit and floating ice disintegration.