Supercooled liquid fogs over the central Greenland Ice Sheet

Cox, Christopher J.; Noone, David C.; Berkelhammer, Max; Shupe, Matthew D.; Neff, William D.; Miller, Nathaniel B.; Walden, Von P.; Steffen, Konrad

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-7467-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-7467-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-7467-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 11

Research article

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05 Jun 2019

Research article |

| 05 Jun 2019

Supercooled liquid fogs over the central Greenland Ice Sheet

Christopher J. Cox, David C. Noone, Max Berkelhammer, Matthew D. Shupe, William D. Neff, Nathaniel B. Miller, Von P. Walden, and Konrad Steffen

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-7467-2019-supplement

Data sets

Surface energy budget at Summit, Greenland M. D. Shupe and N. Miller https://doi.org/10.18739/A2Z37J

Ceilometer Cloud Base Height Measurements at Summit Station, Greenland M. D. Shupe https://doi.org/10.18739/A2221V

Millimeter Cloud Radar measurements taken at Summit Station, Greenland, 2012 M. D. Shupe https://doi.org/10.18739/A2BJ3X

Millimeter Cloud Radar measurements taken at Summit Station, Greenland, 2013 M. D. Shupe https://doi.org/10.18739/A2318G

Millimeter Cloud Radar measurements taken at Summit Station, Greenland, 2014 M. D. Shupe https://doi.org/10.18739/A2121J

SOnic Detection And Ranging (SODAR) measurements taken at Summit Station, Greenland, 2013 M. D. Shupe https://doi.org/10.18739/A21V2V

Radiosonde temperature and humidity profiles taken at Summit Station, Greenland, 2012 V. P. Walden and M. D. Shupe https://doi.org/10.18739/A2X508

Radiosonde temperature and humidity profiles taken at Summit Station, Greenland, 2013 V. P. Walden and M. D. Shupe https://doi.org/10.18739/A2NN44

Radiosonde temperature and humidity profiles taken at Summit Station, Greenland, 2014 V. P. Walden and M. D. Shupe https://doi.org/10.18739/A2WZ18

Polar atmospheric emitted radiance interferometer measurements, Summit Station, Greenland, July-December 2012 V. P. Walden https://doi.org/10.18739/A2TF7R

Polar atmospheric emitted radiance interferometer measurements, Summit Station, Greenland, January-June 2012 V. P. Walden https://doi.org/10.18739/A2VF6P

Polar atmospheric emitted radiance interferometer measurements, Summit Station, Greenland, January-June 2013 V. P. Walden https://doi.org/10.18739/A2JZ2J

Polar atmospheric emitted radiance interferometer measurements, Summit Station, Greenland, July-December 2013 V. P. Walden https://doi.org/10.18739/A29F73

Polar atmospheric emitted radiance interferometer measurements, Summit Station, Greenland, January-June 2014 V. P. Walden https://doi.org/10.18739/A2PJ65

Microwave Radiometer measurements of sky brightness temperature taken at Summit Station, Greenland, 2013 D. D. Turner and R. Bennartz https://doi.org/10.18739/A22J6K

Microwave Radiometer measurements of sky brightness temperature taken at Summit Station, Greenland, 2014 D. D. Turner and R. Bennartz https://doi.org/10.18739/A2HJ57

Micropulse lidar (MPL) measurements taken at Summit Station, Greenland, 2012 M. D. Shupe https://doi.org/10.18739/A20R48

Micropulse lidar (MPL) measurements taken at Summit Station, Greenland, 2013 M. D. Shupe https://doi.org/10.18739/A2MJ55

Micropulse lidar (MPL) measurements taken at Summit Station, Greenland, 2014 M. D. Shupe https://doi.org/10.18739/A23J5H

Tower meteorology at multiple heights and snow temperature, Summit, Greenland, 2011-2014 D. C. Noone, C. J. Cox, M. Berkelhammer and M. O'Neill https://doi.org/10.18739/A2WW76Z78

Tower meteorology at multiple heights and snow temperature, Summit, Greenland, 2013-2014 D. C. Noone, C. J. Cox, M. Berkelhammer and M. O'Neill https://doi.org/10.18739/A21N7XM2W

Tower meteorology at multiple heights and snow temperature, Summit, Greenland, 2011-2012 D. C. Noone, C. J. Cox, M. Berkelhammer and M. O'Neill https://doi.org/10.18739/A25D8ND61

Summit, Greenland, Meteorology and Snow Temperatures: 2011-2014 D. C. Noone and C. J. Cox https://doi.org/10.18739/A28K74W5W

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Fogs are frequently reported by observers on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Fogs play a role in the hydrological and energetic balances of the ice sheet surface, but as yet the properties of Greenland fogs are not well known. We observed fogs in all months from Summit Station for 2 years and report their properties. Annually, fogs impart a slight warming to the surface and a case study suggests that they are particularly influential by providing insulation during the coldest part of the day in summer.