Thomas L. Mote

TL;DR: The discovery of the 2012 extreme melt event across almost the entire surface of the Greenland ice sheet is presented in this article, where data from three different satellite sensors, including the Oceansat-2 scatterometer, the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, and the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder, are combined to obtain composite melt maps.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used land use maps, radar reflectivity, surface meteorological data, upper-air soundings, and airmass classification (spatial synoptic classification) types to determine when, where, and why precipitation is initiated by Atlanta.

TL;DR: A combined analysis of remote sensing observations, regional climate model (RCM) outputs and reanalysis data over the Greenland ice sheet provides evidence that multiple records were set during summer 2012 as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The seasonal melt departure (SMD) metric is defined as the sum from 1 June to 31 August of the departure from average of each day's melt extent, which is a new metric used to describe the amount of melt as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The authors examined the atmospheric and oceanic climatic anomalies that are likely to have contributed to these exceptional conditions and also to ask the question of how unusual these anomalies were compared to available records.