Trend in yearly cumulated melting area of the Greenland ice sheet

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Created : Jun 12, 2012 Published : Jun 14, 2012 Last modified : Nov 29, 2012 12:30 PM

Topics: Climate change ,

The figure shows the change in yearly cumulated area of the Greenland ice sheet and it's melt during the period 1979 to 2011 in percentage relative to area in 1979=100. The linear trend 1979–2011 is included.

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12 Jun 2012

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Temporal coverage:

1979-2011

Tags:

cumulated melt area | Climate change | cryosphere | Greenland Ice Sheet

Geographical coverage:

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Greenland

Methodology:

Fettweis, X., M. Tedesco, M. van den Broeke, and J. Ettema. 2011. ‘Melting Trends over the Greenland Ice Sheet (1958–2009) from Spaceborne Microwave Data and Regional Climate Models’. The Cryosphere 5 (2): 359–375. doi:10.5194/tc-5-359-2011.

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% (1979 = 100 %)

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EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

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European Environment Agency (EEA)

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