Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-773-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-773-2017
Research article
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23 Mar 2017
Research article |  | 23 Mar 2017

Regional Greenland accumulation variability from Operation IceBridge airborne accumulation radar

Gabriel Lewis, Erich Osterberg, Robert Hawley, Brian Whitmore, Hans Peter Marshall, and Jason Box

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We analyze 25 flight lines from NASA's Operation IceBridge Accumulation Radar totaling to determine snow accumulation throughout the dry snow and percolation zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Our results indicate that regional differences between IceBridge and model accumulation are large enough to significantly alter the Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass balance, with implications for future global sea-level rise.