Sensitivity of Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass balance to perturbations in sea surface temperature and sea ice cover: a study with the regional climate model MAR

During recent summers (2007–2012), several surface melt records were broken over the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS). The extreme summer melt resulted in part from a persistent negative phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), favoring warmer atmospheric conditions than normal over the GrIS. Simult...

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Main Authors: B. Noël, X. Fettweis, W. J. van de Berg, M. R. van den Broeke, M. Erpicum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2014-10-01
Series:The Cryosphere
Online Access:http://www.the-cryosphere.net/8/1871/2014/tc-8-1871-2014.pdf