Large surface meltwater discharge from the Kangerlussuaq sector of the Greenland ice sheet during the record-warm year 2010 explained by detailed energy balance observations

Cryosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 199-209

  Van As, D ^a   Hubbard, A L ^b   Hasholt, B ^c   Mikkelsen, A B ^c   Van Den Broeke, M R ^d   Fausto, R S ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Geography and Geology ^*  (Denmark)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; DISCHARGE; ENERGY BALANCE; GAUGE; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; HYPSOMETRY; ICE SHEET; MELTWATER; MODIS; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; RUNOFF; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SURFACE AREA; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WEATHER STATION;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; KANGERLUSSUAQ FJORD;

EID: 84861794551     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-6-199-2012     Document Type: Article

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