Changing surface-atmosphere energy exchange and refreezing capacity of the lower accumulation area, West Greenland

• Main Authors: Charalampidis, C., van As, D., Box, J. E., van den Broeke, M. R., Colgan, W. T., Doyle, S. H., Hubbard, A. L., MacFerrin, M., Machguth, H., Smeets, C. J. P. P.
• Other Authors: Sub Dynamics Meteorology, Marine and Atmospheric Research
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Greenland; Kangerlussuaq; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/341376

We present 5 years (2009–2013) of automatic weather station measurements from the lower accumulation area (1840 m a.s.l. – above sea level) of the Greenland ice sheet in the Kangerlussuaq region. Here, the summers of 2010 and 2012 were both exceptionally warm, but only 2012 resulted in a strongly ne...