Journal
REMOTE SENSING
Volume 15, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs15041149
Keywords
Greenland ice sheet; surface temperature; melt; mass balance
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Accurate monitoring of surface temperature and melting on the Greenland Ice Sheet is crucial for understanding its mass balance and climate change. A study using MODIS data found that there is a strong correlation between surface temperature and mass balance of the ice sheet.
Accurate monitoring of surface temperature and melting on the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) is important for tracking the ice sheet's mass balance as well as global and Arctic climate change. Using a moderate-resolution-imaging-spectroradiometer (MODIS)-derived land-surface-temperature (LST) data product with a resolution of 1 km from 2000 to 2020, the temporal and spatial variations of annual and seasonal 'clear-sky' surface temperature were evaluated. We also monitored summer surface melting and studied the relationship between the mass balance of the ice sheet and changes in surface temperature and melting. The results show that the mean annual LST during the study period is -24.86 +/- 5.46 degrees C, with the highest of -22.48 +/- 5.61 degrees C in 2010 and the lowest temperature of -26.49 +/- 5.30 degrees C in 2015. With the change of season, the spatial variation of the ice-sheet surface temperature changes greatly. 2012 and 2019 experienced the warmest summers (-5.92 +/- 4.01 degrees C and -6.51 +/- 3.93 degrees C), with extreme cumulative melting detected on the ice-sheet surface (89.9% and 89.7%, respectively), and 2002 also experienced a greater extent of melting. But short period of melt in 2002 and 2019 (30.6% and 31.4%, respectively), accounted for a larger proportion, with neither the duration nor intensity of the melt reaching that of 2012. There is a strong correlation between the GrIS surface temperature and its mass balance. By fitting the relationship between surface temperature and mass balance, it was found that 93.83% (6.17%) of the ice-sheet response to surface-temperature change was via surface-mass balance (discharge and basal-mass balance).
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