Diagnosing the extreme surface melt event over southwestern Greenland in 2007
Analysis of passive microwave brightness temperatures from the space-borne Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) documents a record surface snowmelt over high elevations (above 2000 m) of the Greenland ice sheet during summer of 2007. To interpret this record, results from the SSM/I are examined i...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2008-11-01
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Series: | The Cryosphere |
Online Access: | http://www.the-cryosphere.net/2/159/2008/tc-2-159-2008.pdf |