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DOI	10.5194/tc-7-241-2013
	Brief communication Important role of the mid-tropospheric atmospheric circulation in the recent surface melt increase over the Greenland ice sheet
	Fettweis X.; Hanna E.; Lang C.; Belleflamme A.; Erpicum M.; Gallée H.
发表日期	2013
ISSN	19940416
卷号	7 期号:1
英文摘要	Since 2007, there has been a series of surface melt records over the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS), continuing the trend towards increased melt observed since the end of the 1990's. The last two decades are characterized by an increase of negative phases of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) favouring warmer and drier summers than normal over GrIS. In this context, we use a circulation type classification based on daily 500 hPa geopotential height to evaluate the role of atmospheric dynamics in this surface melt acceleration for the last two decades. Due to the lack of direct observations, the interannual melt variability is gauged here by the summer (June-July-August) mean temperature from reanalyses at 700 hPa over Greenland; analogous atmospheric circulations in the past show that ∼70% of the 1993-2012 warming at 700 hPa over Greenland has been driven by changes in the atmospheric flow frequencies. Indeed, the occurrence of anticyclones centred over the GrIS at the surface and at 500 hPa has doubled since the end of 1990's, which induces more frequent southerly warm air advection along the western Greenland coast and over the neighbouring Canadian Arctic Archipelago (CAA). These changes in the NAO modes explain also why no significant warming has been observed these last summers over Svalbard, where northerly atmospheric flows are twice as frequent as before. Therefore, the recent warmer summers over GrIS and CAA cannot be considered as a long-term climate warming but are more a consequence of NAO variability affecting atmospheric heat transport. Although no global model from the CMIP5 database projects subsequent significant changes in NAO through this century, we cannot exclude the possibility that the observed NAO changes are due to global warming. © 2013 Author(s).
学科领域	advection; annual variation; atmospheric circulation; climate classification; database; global warming; heat transfer; ice sheet; North Atlantic Oscillation; troposphere; Arctic; Greenland
语种	英语
scopus关键词	advection; annual variation; atmospheric circulation; climate classification; database; global warming; heat transfer; ice sheet; North Atlantic Oscillation; troposphere; Arctic; Greenland
来源期刊	Cryosphere
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/120307
作者单位	Laboratory of Climatology, Department of Geography, University of Liège, n 2 Allé du 6 Aout, 4000, Liège, Belgium; Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Winter Street, S10 2TN, Sheffield, United Kingdom; Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement (LGGE), n 54 Rue Molire, 38402, Grenoble, France
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Fettweis X.,Hanna E.,Lang C.,et al. Brief communication Important role of the mid-tropospheric atmospheric circulation in the recent surface melt increase over the Greenland ice sheet[J],2013,7(1).
APA	Fettweis X.,Hanna E.,Lang C.,Belleflamme A.,Erpicum M.,&Gallée H..(2013).Brief communication Important role of the mid-tropospheric atmospheric circulation in the recent surface melt increase over the Greenland ice sheet.Cryosphere,7(1).
MLA	Fettweis X.,et al."Brief communication Important role of the mid-tropospheric atmospheric circulation in the recent surface melt increase over the Greenland ice sheet".Cryosphere 7.1(2013).