Long-term surface energy balance of the western Greenland Ice Sheet and the role of large-scale circulation variability

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: B. Huai, M. R. van den Broeke, C. H. Reijmer
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2020
• Subjects: geo; envir; Greenland; Kangerlussuaq; Ice Sheet; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation; The Cryosphere; Thule
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4181-2020; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/14/4181/2020/tc-14-4181-2020.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/033e6f678844420bbdd758d0b3282987

We present the surface energy balance (SEB) of the western Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) using an energy balance model forced with hourly observations from nine automatic weather stations (AWSs) along two transects: the Kangerlussuaq (K) transect with seven AWSs in the southwest and the Thule (T) trans...