Just a month after rainfall was recorded for the first time ever at Greenland's highest point, the island is expecting up to four feet of snow from the remnants of Hurricane Larry — the rare tropical storm to stay intact so far north.
Hurricane-force gusts topped 100 miles per hour at Kulusuk Airport near Greenland's southeast coast. At Tasiilaq, the largest town in the region, sustained winds reached 55 miles per hour, with gusts of over 90.
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Greenland Pummeled By Snow One Month After Its Summit Saw Rain For The First Time
Becky Sullivan | NPR
REMINDER: get your mini-talks and registration in for the Greenland Fieldwork Science Workshop
Summit Science Coordination Office (SCO)
This is just a quick reminder of the workshop on Greenland Fieldwork scheduled for next week, Sept 14 and Sept 16 from 12:30-16:30 US Eastern Time.
Due to a glitch in the registration form, if you are planning on attending, please send RSVP sco@geo-summit.org for meeting and connection details, and send along any mini-talks you have. Happy to answer any questions. All are welcome and encouraged to attend.
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Dear Greenland Research Community,
Greenland Fieldwork Science Workshop, Sept 14/16, 2021
Summit Science Coordination Office (SCO)
Dear Greenland Research Community,
We invite you to a virtual meeting to discuss future goals for NASA and NSF funded field projects working on the Greenland Ice Sheet, Sept 14 and Sept 16, 2021, 12:30-16:30 eastern. Our goal is to discuss synergies for current and future field programs working on the ice sheet. This meeting is designed to be a combination of what in the past has been the GEOSummit workshop discussing future science goals at NSF's Summit Station, Greenland and a mini, field-centric version of NASA's PARCA meeting. We envision a return to PARCA's roots, devoted to discussing the science and results coming out of the various field campaigns supported by NASA and NSF and possible synergies between deploying projects. We are soliciting 5 min lightning talks (two slides max!) focused on fieldwork and field data that include 1) your most recent, exciting Greenland results you want to share and 2) future plans and logistics needs. We welcome any follow-on to recent traverse and field safety workshops and discussions.
Rain falls at the summit of Greenland Ice Sheet for first time on record
Kasha Patel | Capital Weather Gang, The Washington Post
Greenland just experienced another massive melt event this year. But this time, something unusual happened. It also rained at the summit of the ice sheet, nearly two miles above sea level.
Around 6 a.m. Saturday, staff at the National Science Foundation’s Summit Station woke up to raindrops and water beads condensed on the station’s windows. Rain occasionally falls on the ice sheet, but no staff member recalls rain — even a light drizzle — ever occurring at the summit before.
Geosummit.org has become geo-summit.org
Summit Science Coordination Office (SCO)
On July 20, 2021, our website moved from geosummit.org to geo-summit.org. Please update your bookmarks. Also, the Summit Science Coordination Office (SCO) can now be reached via email at sco@geo-summit.org.
WATSON's Field Test in Greenland
NASA/JPL-Caltech
During 2019 field tests near Greenland's Summit Station, a high-elevation remote observing station, the WATSON (Wireline Analysis Tool for the Subsurface Observation of Northern ice sheets) instrument is put through its paces to seek out signs of life, or biosignatures, 360 feet (110 meters) down a borehole.
NY Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing mounting critical resupply mission in Greenland
Jaclyn Lyons | New York National Guard
STRATTON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.Y. -- The 109th Airlift Wing will launch a three-week mission to carry critical supplies to Summit Station, the only year-round science station that operates on the Greenland ice cap on August 4th.
Three LC-130 Skibirds, supported by 20 aircrew members and 40 maintenance Airmen from Stratton Air National Guard Base in Scotia, New York, will be delivering 280,000 pounds of fuel, around 40,000 gallons, and 30,000 pounds of food and other supplies in the shortened three week season.
Highlights of 2019 at Summit
Summit Science Coordination Office (SCO)
Is the surface snow melting more often at Summit Station? Insights from the NSF-funded ICECAPS project.
In the early 1990s, the Greenland Ice Sheet Project (GISP-2) drilled a deep ice core at Summit Station that was over 3000 meters. This ice core revealed clues of past climate of both the Arctic region and the entire Earth. One analysis examined the ice core for particular layers that signified when the surface snow at Summit had melted. The result was that these “melt events” are rare. In fact, only about 50 melt events have occurred at Summit in the past 10,000 years. And over the past 3000 years, they have only occurred once in roughly every 250 years.
Summit Station Season Updates - Summer 2018
Summit Science Coordination Office (SCO)
Record winds and bear visit present new environmental challenges
Summit Station wrapped up the 2018 summer after a season marked with weather and wildlife challenges. Feb 24, 2018 saw the highest recorded wind speed at Summit, as the NOAA weather station registered gusts of 104 knots (sustained wind speeds of 71 knots). The Summit winter-over four person crew, the science instruments, and the camp infrastructure weathered the storm with very few problems, save for a lot of digging.
Summit Transitions from Summer to Winter Operations
Summit Science Coordination Office (SCO)
Summit camp staff, with help from visitors from Denver and SCO, have shut down all summer buildings and relocated them to berms. Final flight of the summer season on 28 August brought 7 DV’s lead by the US Ambassador to Denmark, Carla Sands, up to Summit for a site visit.