From several summers, I run the regional climate model MAR over the Greenland ice sheet to follow the melting season over the Greenland ice Sheet (GrIS) in real time. This summer, I force MAR with GFS allowing to perform 7-day forecasting in the aim of eventually anticipating big melt events over GrIS if your are on the field.
These forecasts are available on http://climato.be/melt and are only provided for information.
As you will see, the 2018 melting season has just started over GrIS with a first big event at the beginning of June but MAR forecasts a return to normal conditions in the coming days.
All the best,
Xavier
PS: Some outputs of MARv3.9 (including the forecast over 2018) are available on my FTP but I request a co-authorship of you use these ones in your publications.
-- Dr. Xavier Fettweis Research Associate - Chercheur qualifié (FNRS) Department of Geography - University of Liège Laboratory of Climatology (Bat. B11) Sart-Tilman / Quartier Village 4 Clos Mercator, 3 4000 Liège Belgique Phone : +32 4 3665468 Fax : +32 4 3665722 Email : xavier.fettweis@uliege.be Web : www.climato.be/fettweis www.spheres.uliege.be
