DOI: 10.5194/tc-7-241-2013
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84874077692
论文题名: Brief communication Important role of the mid-tropospheric atmospheric circulation in the recent surface melt increase over the Greenland ice sheet
作者: Fettweis X ; , Hanna E ; , Lang C ; , Belleflamme A ; , Erpicum M ; , Gallée H
刊名: Cryosphere
ISSN: 19940416
出版年: 2013
卷: 7, 期: 1 起始页码: 241
结束页码: 248
语种: 英语
英文关键词: advection
; annual variation
; atmospheric circulation
; climate classification
; database
; global warming
; heat transfer
; ice sheet
; North Atlantic Oscillation
; troposphere
; Arctic
; Greenland
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). Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/74997
Appears in Collections: 影响、适应和脆弱性 气候变化与战略
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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
Recommended Citation:
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]. Cryosphere,2013-01-01,7(1)