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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 41, 期 5, 页码 1600-1607出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL059185
关键词
Greenland ice sheet; melt; blocking
资金
- NASA Cryospheric Sciences Program
- NASA Physical Oceanography Program
Daily June-July melt fraction variations over the Greenland ice sheet (GIS) derived from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) (2000-2013) are associated with atmospheric blocking forming an omega-shape ridge over the GIS at 500hPa height. Blocking activity with a range of time scales, from synoptic waves breaking poleward (<5days) to full-fledged blocks (5days), brings warm subtropical air masses over the GIS controlling daily surface temperatures and melt. The temperature anomaly of these subtropical air mass intrusions is also important for melting. Based on the years with the greatest melt (2002 and 2012) during the MODIS era, the area-average temperature anomaly of 2 standard deviations above the 14 year June-July mean results in a melt fraction of 40% or more. Though the summer of 2007 had the most blocking days, atmospheric temperature anomalies were too small to instigate extreme melting.
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