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Research article
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01 Sep 2023
Research article |
| 01 Sep 2023
| 01 Sep 2023
The importance of regional sea-ice variability for the coastal climate and near-surface temperature gradients in Northeast Greenland
Department of Geography and Regional Science, University of Graz,
Graz, Austria
Austrian Polar Research Institute, Vienna, Austria
Jakob Abermann
Department of Geography and Regional Science, University of Graz,
Graz, Austria
Austrian Polar Research Institute, Vienna, Austria
Asiaq – Greenland Survey, Nuuk, Greenland
Tiago Silva
Department of Geography and Regional Science, University of Graz,
Graz, Austria
Austrian Polar Research Institute, Vienna, Austria
Kirsty Langley
Asiaq – Greenland Survey, Nuuk, Greenland
Signe Hillerup Larsen
Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark
Mikhail Mastepanov
Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Wolfgang Schöner
Department of Geography and Regional Science, University of Graz,
Graz, Austria
Austrian Polar Research Institute, Vienna, Austria
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This work partitions regional climate model (RCM) runoff from the MAR and RACMO RCMs to hydrologic outlets at the ice margin and coast. Temporal resolution is daily from 1959 through 2019. Spatial grid is ~ 100 m, resolving individual streams. In addition to discharge at outlets, we also provide the streams, outlets, and basin geospatial data, as well as a script to query and access the geospatial or time series discharge data from the data files.
Xavier Morel, Birger Hansen, Christine Delire, Per Ambus, Mikhail Mastepanov, and Bertrand Decharme
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 2365–2380, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2365-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2365-2020, 2020
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Nuuk fen site is a well-instrumented Greenlandic site where soil physical variables and greenhouse gas fluxes are monitored. But knowledge of soil carbon stocks and profiles is missing. This is a crucial shortcoming for a complete evaluation of models. For the first time we measured soil carbon and nitrogen density, profiles, and stocks in the Nuuk peatland. This new dataset can contribute to further develop joint modeling of greenhouse gas emissions and soil carbon in land-surface models.
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Short summary
This study highlights how the sea ice variability in the Greenland Sea affects the terrestrial climate and the surface mass changes of peripheral glaciers of the Zackenberg region (ZR), Northeast Greenland, combining model output and observations. Our results show that the temporal evolution of sea ice influences the climate anomaly magnitude in the ZR. We also found that the changing temperature and precipitation patterns due to sea ice variability can affect the surface mass of the ice cap.
This study highlights how the sea ice variability in the Greenland Sea affects the terrestrial...
