Vol. 26 | 2012

Ablation observations for 2008–2011 from the Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE)

RESEARCH ARTICLE | SHORT
Published July 10, 2012
Robert S Fausto
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Dirk van As
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RESEARCH ARTICLE | SHORT
Published July 10, 2012
Weather station on the ice.
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Recent estimates from the glaciological community agree that the Greenland ice sheet is losing mass at an accelerated pace due to climate change (Velicogna 2009; Khan et al. 2010; Rignot et al. 2011). This has caught the attention of the public and policy makers due to the potential impact on sea-level rise (Dahl-Jensen et al. 2009). The mass loss can be attributed approximately equally to increases in meltwater runoff from surface melt and iceberg production (van den Broeke et al. 2009).

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