Figure 1. Difference between the number of melt days in 2011 and the average number of melt days during the period 1979 – 2010. Large sections of the island experienced twenty more days with melting conditions than average. Image: Arctic Report Card. by Jeff Masters, via the WunderBlog The record books for Greenland’s climate were [...]
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Greenland ice mass anomaly – deviation from the average ice mass over the 2002 to 2010 period. Note: this doesn’t mean the ice sheet was gaining ice before 2006 but that ice mass was above the 2002 to 2010 average. The satellite dat... Read Post
Researchers found that Greenland's annual melting season lasted 50 days longer than average last year when compared to the years between 1979 and 2009. Their work was published in the latest issue of Environmental Research Letters.... Read Post
Surface-melt days in 2011 compared to the average number of melt days between 1979 and 2010: orange=more days; blue=fewer days; white=no difference from average, or too small to detect. Image and caption courtesy NOAA’s Climate.gov ... Read Post