June 18th, 2013
A weather pattern that may have become more common in recent years was largely responsible for causing last summer’s record melt in Greenland, according to a new study. The research, published this week in the International Journal of Climatology, found that a giant protective dome of high pressure established itself above Greenland throughout the summer of 2012, leading to above-average temperatures and more abundant sunshine than in a typical summer season.
Record 2012 Greenland Melt Challenges Climate Models | Climate Central
NASA reported the exact opposite. It was not a record and it isn’t happening any more frequently.
“Ice cores from Summit show that melting events of this type occur about once every 150 years on average. With the last one happening in 1889, this event is right on time,” says Lora Koenig, a Goddard glaciologist and a member of the research team analyzing the satellite data.
NASA – Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt
… a giant protective dome of high pressure established itself above Greenland …
I think the guy that wrote that must have seen the Simpsons movie once too often.
The “giant protective dome” is for golfers who want to practice on the driving range indoors.
Careful or it will end up like the Metrodome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAyLX2hY7E0
Frankly, it doesn’t make sense to me. High pressure above snow is generally associated with clear skies and COLD (solar energy is reflected and radiating away)
This year’s protective dome at Summit has produced subzero (F) temperatures well into June and all but smothered the Greenland Country Club with snow.