Recent/current
climate of Greenland and
relation with Ice Sheet mass balance
Collaborators:
- Edward Hanna (Institute of
Marine Studies, Plymouth)
- John Cappelen
(Danish Met. Institute, Copenhagen)
- Joe McConnell
(Desert Research Institute, USA)
- Philippe Huybrechts
(Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany)
- Tom Mote (University
of Georgia, USA)
- Roger Braithwaite
(University of Manchester, UK)
Objectives:
Relating recent/ongoing changes
in ice and climate in Greenland to improve understanding of present-day
surface mass balance of Greenland Ice Sheet and its likely response to
future sea-level change.
Journal Publications:
- 2002, "Surface mass balance
of the Greenland Ice Sheet from climate analysis data and
accumulation/runoff models" (E. Hanna, P. Huybrechts and T. Mote). Annals
of Glaciology 35, in press.
- 2003 Recent cooling in coastal southern Greenland
and relation with the North Atlantic Oscillation (Hanna, E. & J. Cappelen). Geophysical
Research Letters 30 (3), 1132, doi:10.1029/2002GL015797.
- September 2002,
"Recent climate of southern Greenland" (E. Hanna & J. Cappelen). Weather
57, 9, 320-328.
- March 2002, "The
Climate of Kangerlussuaq, South-West Greenland" The Journal of
Meteorology 27, 85-90.
- December 2001,
"Annual net snow accumulation over southern Greenland from 1975 to
1998" (J.R. McConnell, G. Lamoney, E. Hanna, E. Mosley-Thompson, R.C.
Bales, D. Belle-Oudry and J.D. Kyne). Journal
of Geophysical
Research (Special PARCA Issue), D24, 33827-33837.
- September 2001,
"Patterns and variations of snow accumulation over Greenland, 1979-98,
from ECMWF analyses, and their verification" (E. Hanna, P. Valdes &
J. McConnell).
Journal of Climate, 14,
N 17, 3521-3535.
- February 2001,
"Validation of ECMWF (re)analysis surface climate data, 1979-98, for
Greenland and implications for mass balance modelling of the Ice Sheet"
(with P. Valdes). International
Journal of Climatology 21,
171-195.
Conference Presentations:
- 2002 September 4,
International Glaciological Society British Branch Meeting, "Recent
changes in ice and climate in Greenland" (15-min. talk).
- 2002 April 24,
European Geophysical Society, "Mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet
from meteorological and glaciological modelling" (15-min talk;
coworkers P. Huybrechts, J. McConnell & T. Mote).
- 2002 April 24,
European Geophysical Society, "Recent cooling in southern Greenland"
(15-min. talk; coworker J. Cappelen).
- 2001 August 19-23,
International Glaciological Society International Symposium on Ice
Cores and Climate, Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, "Surface mass balance of
the Greenland Ice Sheet from climate analysis data and
accumulation/runoff models" (15-min. talk; coworkers Philippe
Huybrechts & Thomas Mote).
