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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2797-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2797-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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04 Nov 2019
Research article |
| 04 Nov 2019
| 04 Nov 2019
Recent precipitation decrease across the western Greenland ice sheet percolation zone
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
Hans Peter Marshall
Geosciences Department, Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA
Tate Meehan
Geosciences Department, Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA
Karina Graeter
Office of Sustainability, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
Forrest McCarthy
College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska
Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA
Thomas Overly
NASA Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), University of
Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Zayta Thundercloud
Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
David Ferris
Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Greenland ice sheet mass balance from 1840 through next week K. Mankoff et al. 10.5194/essd-13-5001-2021
- GrSMBMIP: intercomparison of the modelled 1980–2012 surface mass balance over the Greenland Ice Sheet X. Fettweis et al. 10.5194/tc-14-3935-2020
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- Improving piecewise linear snow density models through hierarchical spatial and orthogonal functional smoothing P. White et al. 10.1002/env.2726
- Relating regional and point measurements of accumulation in southwest Greenland A. Heilig et al. 10.5194/tc-14-385-2020
- A Daily 1‐km Resolution Greenland Rainfall Climatology (1958–2020) From Statistical Downscaling of a Regional Atmospheric Climate Model B. Huai et al. 10.1029/2022JD036688
- Empirical projection of global sea level in 2050 driven by Antarctic and Greenland ice mass variations D. Lee et al. 10.1088/1748-9326/ad13b8
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Short summary
We present accumulation records from sixteen 22–32 m long firn cores and 4436 km of ground-penetrating radar, covering the past 20–60 years of accumulation, collected across the western Greenland Ice Sheet percolation zone. Trends from both radar and firn cores, as well as commonly used regional climate models, show decreasing accumulation over the 1996–2016 period.
We present accumulation records from sixteen 22–32 m long firn cores and 4436 km of...
