Do Inner Greenland's Melt Rate Dynamics Approach Coastal Ones?

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Main Authors: Heßler, Martin, Kamps, Oliver
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author Heßler, Martin
Kamps, Oliver
author_facet Heßler, Martin
Kamps, Oliver
contents The Greenland Ice Sheet may be nearing a tipping point, transitioning to permanent melting. This article analyses two melt rate time series using the Bayesian Langevin estimation (BLE), providing further evidence for destabilizing melt dynamics, along with new insights from the method's nonlinear parameterisation. Comparing the results for Western Central Greenland and the Nuussuaq peninsula suggests that inland melt dynamics may approach less stable coastal dynamics on slow and fast scales. Both datasets show a significant increase in fast-scale amplitudes since the 1970s, possibly driven by large-scale atmospheric fluctuations. Additionally, the BLE's nonlinear drift proves crucial for obtaining these results, as a linear Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process fails to capture these dynamics due to the oversimplification of a strictly positive autocorrelation function.
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spellingShingle Do Inner Greenland's Melt Rate Dynamics Approach Coastal Ones?
Heßler, Martin
Kamps, Oliver
Geophysics
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
62M, 37M, 62F15, 65P30, 65Y05, 65Y15, 65Z05 34D, 60-08
G.1; G.3; G.4; J.2
The Greenland Ice Sheet may be nearing a tipping point, transitioning to permanent melting. This article analyses two melt rate time series using the Bayesian Langevin estimation (BLE), providing further evidence for destabilizing melt dynamics, along with new insights from the method's nonlinear parameterisation. Comparing the results for Western Central Greenland and the Nuussuaq peninsula suggests that inland melt dynamics may approach less stable coastal dynamics on slow and fast scales. Both datasets show a significant increase in fast-scale amplitudes since the 1970s, possibly driven by large-scale atmospheric fluctuations. Additionally, the BLE's nonlinear drift proves crucial for obtaining these results, as a linear Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process fails to capture these dynamics due to the oversimplification of a strictly positive autocorrelation function.
title Do Inner Greenland's Melt Rate Dynamics Approach Coastal Ones?
topic Geophysics
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
62M, 37M, 62F15, 65P30, 65Y05, 65Y15, 65Z05 34D, 60-08
G.1; G.3; G.4; J.2
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07248