Twenty-one years of mass balance observations along the K-transect, West Greenland

A 21-yr record is presented of surface mass balance measurements along the Ktransect. The series covers the period 1990–2011. Data are available at 8 sites along a transect over an altitude range of 390–1850m at approximately 67 N in West Greenland. The surface mass balance gradient is on average 3....

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Main Authors: van de Wal, R.S.W., Boot, W., Smeets, C.J.P.P., Snellen, H., van den Broeke, M.R., Oerlemans, J.
Other Authors: Marine and Atmospheric Research, Dep Natuurkunde, Afd Marine and Atmospheric Research, Sub Dynamics Meteorology
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Greenland
Online Access:https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/257542
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Summary:A 21-yr record is presented of surface mass balance measurements along the Ktransect. The series covers the period 1990–2011. Data are available at 8 sites along a transect over an altitude range of 390–1850m at approximately 67 N in West Greenland. The surface mass balance gradient is on average 3.8×10−3 mw.e.m−1 5 , and the mean equilibrium line altitude is 1553ma.s.l. Only the lower 3 sites within 10 km of the margin experience a significant increasing trend in the ablation over the entire period. Data are available at: http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.779181.

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