Are transition season melt events on the Greenland Ice Sheet driven by Baffin Bay sea ice-atmosphere interactions?


Thomas Ballinger1, Thomas L Mote2, Kyle Stephen Mattingly3, Edward Hanna4, Angela C Bliss5,6, Dirk van As7, Melissa Prieto8, Saeideh Gharechahi8, Xavier Fettweis9, Brice Noel10, Paul Smeets10 and Mads Ribergaard11, (1)Texas State University San Marcos, San Marcos, United States, (2)Univ Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, (3)University of Wisconsin Madison, Space Science & Engineering Center, Madison, WI, United States, (4)University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)University of Maryland College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, United States, (7)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, København K, Denmark, (8)Texas State University, San Marcos, United States, (9)University of Liège, Département de Géographie, Liège, Belgium, (10)Utrecht University, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, (11)Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark