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Articles | Volume 18, issue 7
Articles | Volume 18, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-3333-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-3333-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 7
Research article
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24 Jul 2024
Research article |  | 24 Jul 2024

Greenland's firn responds more to warming than to cooling

Megan Thompson-Munson, Jennifer E. Kay, and Bradley R. Markle

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The upper layers of the Greenland Ice Sheet are absorbent and can store meltwater that would otherwise flow into the ocean and raise sea level. The amount of meltwater that the ice sheet can store changes when the air temperature changes. We use a model to show that warming and cooling have opposite but unequal effects. Warming has a stronger effect than cooling, which highlights the vulnerability of the Greenland Ice Sheet to modern climate change.
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