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23 Mar 2017
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| 23 Mar 2017
Regional Greenland accumulation variability from Operation IceBridge airborne accumulation radar
Gabriel Lewis
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Erich Osterberg
Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Robert Hawley
Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Brian Whitmore
Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Hans Peter Marshall
Geosciences Department, Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA
Jason Box
Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Copenhagen, Denmark
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We analyze 25 flight lines from NASA's Operation IceBridge Accumulation Radar totaling to determine snow accumulation throughout the dry snow and percolation zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Our results indicate that regional differences between IceBridge and model accumulation are large enough to significantly alter the Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass balance, with implications for future global sea-level rise.
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