Indications of melt in near-surface ice-core stratigraphy: comparisons with passive-microwave melt signals over the Greenland ice sheet
| Autor: | Thomas L. Mote, Mark R. Anderson, Karl C. Kuivinen, Clinton M. Rowe |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
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geography
010506 paleontology geography.geographical_feature_category 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Ice stream Firn Greenland ice sheet Arctic ice pack 01 natural sciences Ice-sheet model Ice core Melt pond Ice sheet Petrology Geomorphology Geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Earth-Surface Processes |
| Zdroj: | Annals of Glaciology. 21:59-63 |
| ISSN: | 1727-5644 0260-3055 |
| DOI: | 10.3189/s0260305500015603 |
| Popis: | During the summer of 1993, a field program was conducted to collect several shallow firn cores from two locations in the southern region of the Greenland ice sheet. Stratigraphic evidence of melt from these cores was used for comparison with satellite-derived indications of melt. The shallow firn cores were examined for stratigraphic evidence of past melt events and were sampled for oxygen-isotope analysis to delineate the annual accumulation layers in the snowpack. The relative intensity of each year’s summer melt episode was compared to the corresponding melt frequency derived from microwave emissions. This comparison demonstrates that a linkage between the stratigraphic record and microwave data can be established. Both data sets indicate that there was less melt during the late 1970s and early 1980s than during the late 1980s, in general agreement with climate observations. |
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