Increased Greenland melt triggered by large-scale, year-round cyclonic moisture intrusions

Oltmanns, Marilena; Straneo, Fiammetta; Tedesco, Marco

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-815-2019

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-815-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-815-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

Research article

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07 Mar 2019

Research article |

| 07 Mar 2019

Increased Greenland melt triggered by large-scale, year-round cyclonic moisture intrusions

Marilena Oltmanns, Fiammetta Straneo, and Marco Tedesco

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Short summary

By combining reanalysis, weather station and satellite data, we show that increases in surface melt over Greenland are initiated by large-scale precipitation events year-round. Estimates from a regional climate model suggest that the initiated melting more than doubled between 1988 and 2012, amounting to ~28 % of the overall melt and revealing that, despite the involved mass gain, precipitation events are contributing to the ice sheet's decline.