Greenland precipitation trends in a long-term instrumental climate context (1890-2012): Evaluation of coastal and ice core records

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 303-320

  Mernild, Sebastian H ^a,b   Hanna, Edward ^c   Mcconnell, Joseph R ^d   Sigl, Michael ^d   Beckerman, Andrew P ^c   Yde, Jacob C ^e   Cappelen, John ^f   Malmros, Jeppe K ^a   Steffen, Konrad ^g,h,i  

^a CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS CIENTÍFICOS CECS   (Chile)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e WESTERN NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^f DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^g SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^h ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

ⁱ EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate; Greenland; Ice core; Observations; Precipitation; Weather stations

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; METEOROLOGY; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE; GREENLAND; ICE CORE; OBSERVATIONS; WEATHER STATIONS;

ICE;

EID: 84922781923     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3986     Document Type: Article

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