Articles | Volume 13, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2797-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2797-2019
Research article
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04 Nov 2019
Research article |  | 04 Nov 2019

Recent precipitation decrease across the western Greenland ice sheet percolation zone

Gabriel Lewis, Erich Osterberg, Robert Hawley, Hans Peter Marshall, Tate Meehan, Karina Graeter, Forrest McCarthy, Thomas Overly, Zayta Thundercloud, and David Ferris

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ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (04 Sep 2019) by Michiel van den Broeke
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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (11 Oct 2019) by Michiel van den Broeke
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Short summary
We present accumulation records from sixteen 22–32 m long firn cores and 4436 km of ground-penetrating radar, covering the past 20–60 years of accumulation, collected across the western Greenland Ice Sheet percolation zone. Trends from both radar and firn cores, as well as commonly used regional climate models, show decreasing accumulation over the 1996–2016 period.