http://polarportal.dk/en/greenland/surface-conditions/ as at 11 August 2019On this day... almost no change again
Melt a bit below yesterday's. Only a tiny bit above average..
Precipitation very low, and as a result ......
SMB (Surface Mass Balance) loss same as yesterday & double the average. 4,000 million tons mass loss from melting on this day.
Albedo anomaly very high, i.e. darker surface. Any insolation, though reducing quickly, more likely to cause melt.
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5 day outlookMelt / Temperatures. Southern & Eastern Greenland cold. North & West still above average.
Precipitation 5 day outlook.
Still looking lowish or very dry.
This should mean that though melt is reducing
SMB mass loss will still be above average.
High pressure has been, is, and will be stuck over Greenland - until ....?
The melting season gently fades into history as the Greenland summer ends, the oh so short Autumn starts and winter arrives with thump._______________________________________________
Quote from DMI (because every so often people get confused...The term surface mass balance (SMB) is used to describe the isolated gain and loss of mass of the surface of the ice sheet – excluding the mass that is lost when glaciers calve off icebergs and melt as they come into contact with warm seawater.
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ps from me: Calving and melt from by relatively warm sea water on marine-terminating glaciers exceeds the annual overall SMB gain. It is the GRACE-FO satellite that is giving the data to give the overall net Greenland mass loss. The data up to the end of August 2019 might be produced sometime in late September. (Fingers crossed)
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