Greenland Ice Sheet surface melt amplified by snowline migration and bare ice exposure

J. C. Ryan; L. C. Smith; D. van As; S. W. Cooley; M. G. Cooper; L. H Pitcher; A. Hubbard

doi:10.1126/sciadv.aav3738

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Greenland Ice Sheet surface melt amplified by snowline migration and bare ice exposure

View ORCID ProfileJ. C. Ryan¹,²,*,
View ORCID ProfileL. C. Smith ¹,²,³,*,
View ORCID ProfileD. van As⁴,
View ORCID ProfileS. W. Cooley¹,³,
M. G. Cooper²,
View ORCID ProfileL. H Pitcher² and
A. Hubbard⁵,⁶

¹Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
²Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
³Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
⁴Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁵Centre for Glaciology, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK.
⁶Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, Department of Geology, University of Tromsø, Tromsø 9037, Norway.

↵*Corresponding author. Email: jonathan_ryan{at}brown.edu (J.C.R.); lsmith{at}geog.ucla.edu (L.C.S.)

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Science Advances 06 Mar 2019:
Vol. 5, no. 3, eaav3738
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav3738

J. C. Ryan

1Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.

2Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

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For correspondence: jonathan_ryan@brown.edu lsmith@geog.ucla.edu

L. C. Smith

1Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.

2Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

3Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.

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D. van As

4Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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S. W. Cooley

1Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.

3Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.

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M. G. Cooper

2Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

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L. H Pitcher

2Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

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A. Hubbard

5Centre for Glaciology, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK.

6Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, Department of Geology, University of Tromsø, Tromsø 9037, Norway.

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