Articles | Volume 10, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1739-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1739-2016
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11 Aug 2016
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Annual Greenland accumulation rates (2009–2012) from airborne snow radar

Lora S. Koenig, Alvaro Ivanoff, Patrick M. Alexander, Joseph A. MacGregor, Xavier Fettweis, Ben Panzer, John D. Paden, Richard R. Forster, Indrani Das, Joesph R. McConnell, Marco Tedesco, Carl Leuschen, and Prasad Gogineni

Data sets

Operation IceBridge Snow Radar data National Snow and Ice Data Center http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/FAZTWP500V70

The SUMup dataset Nasa Cryospheric Sciences http://neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov/csb/index.php?section=267

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Contemporary climate warming over the Arctic is accelerating mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet through increasing surface melt, emphasizing the need to closely monitor surface mass balance in order to improve sea-level rise predictions. Here, we quantify the net annual accumulation over the Greenland Ice Sheet, which comprises the largest component of surface mass balance, at a higher spatial resolution than currently available using high-resolution, airborne-radar data.