The surface albedo of the Greenland Ice Sheet between 1982 and 2015 from the CLARA-A2 dataset and its relationship to the ice sheet's surface mass balance

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: A. Riihelä, M. D. King, K. Anttila
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2019
• Subjects: geo; envir; Greenland; Merra; Ice Sheet; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2597-2019; https://www.the-cryosphere.net/13/2597/2019/tc-13-2597-2019.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/1276fce10b82468d80562ce73b8546d4

The Greenland Ice Sheet is losing mass at a significant rate, driven in part by increasing surface-melt-induced runoff. Because the ice sheet's surface melt is closely connected to changes in the surface albedo, studying multidecadal changes in the ice sheet's albedo offers insight into su...