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Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-815-2019
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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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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.
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