In 2007, Denmark launched the Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE) to assess changes in the mass balance of the ice sheet. The two major contributors to the ice sheet mass loss are surface melt and a larger production of icebergs through faster ice flow. PROMICE is focused on both processes. Ice movement and discharge is tracked by satellites and GPSs. The surface mass balance is monitored by a network of weather stations in the melt zone of the ice sheet, providing ground truth data to calibrate mass budget models.

The Greenland Climate Network (GC-Net) was established in 1995 by Prof. Konrad Steffen at CIRES, to obtain knowledge of the mass gain and climatology of the ice sheet. The programme was funded by the USA until 2020, at which point Denmark assumed responsibility for the operation and maintenance of the weather station network. The snowfall and climatology are monitored by a network of weather stations in the accumulation zone of the ice sheet, supplemented by satellite-derived data products.

Together, the two monitoring programmes deliver data about the mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet in near real-time. Explore our project dataverses and datasets below.
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Jun 27, 2025 - Ice velocity
Solgaard, Anne Munck; Kusk, Anders, 2024, "Greenland Ice Velocity from Sentinel-1 Edition 4", https://doi.org/10.22008/FK2/LFZLZN, GEUS Dataverse, V37
Greenland Ice Velocity from Sentinel-1 The PROMICE Ice Velocity product is a timeseries of Greenland Ice Sheet velocity mosaics based on ESA Sentinel-1 SAR offset tracking. The product spans the period January 2016 to present. Spatial resolution: 200 m Temporal resolution: A new...
Jun 25, 2025 - Ice Discharge
Mankoff, Ken; Solgaard, Anne; Larsen, Signe, 2020, "Greenland Ice Sheet solid ice discharge from 1986 through last month: Discharge", https://doi.org/10.22008/promice/data/ice_discharge/d/v02, GEUS Dataverse, V111
Greenland Ice Sheet solid ice discharge from 1986 through last month Recent update includes PROMICE Ice Velocity (200m resolution), and baseline thickness has been updated to the 2020 DEM from Winstrup et al in review see github issue: #44 and related datasets. Before using the d...
Jun 25, 2025 - Monitoring snow water equivalent on the Greenland Ice Sheet
Fausto, Robert S., 2025, "Snow water equivalent at QAS_U", https://doi.org/10.22008/FK2/BKG3NQ, GEUS Dataverse, V1
The SnowFox sensor observes snow-water equivalent (SWE) by the attenuation of cosmic-ray neutrons. The sensor is located close to a PROMICE automatic weather station to complement the snow depth measurements.
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Jun 23, 2025
Monitoring snow water equivalent on the Greenland ice sheet.
Jun 3, 2025 - Automatic weather stations
How, P.; Lund, M.C.; Ahlstrøm, A.P.; Andersen, S.B.; Box, J.E.; Citterio, M.; Colgan, W.T.; Fausto, R.S.; Karlsson, N.B.; Jakobsen, J.; Jakobsgaard, H.T.; Larsen, S.H.; Mankoff, K.D.; Nielsen, R.B.; Rutishauser, A.; Shield, C.L.; Solgaard, A.M.; Stevens, I.T.; van As, D.; Vandecrux, B.; Abermann, J.; Bjørk, A.A.; Langley, K.; Lea, J.; Prinz, R., 2022, "PROMICE and GC-Net automated weather station data in Greenland", https://doi.org/10.22008/FK2/IW73UU, GEUS Dataverse, V25
PROMICE and GC-Net automated weather station (AWS) data in Greenland. The data is available either as csv or netcdf files. Station locations, installation (if necessary, decommission) date, location type (tundra, ice sheet, local glacier), station type (one or two levels of measu...
May 28, 2025 - Automatic weather stations
How, P.; Lund, M.C.; Nielsen, R.B.; Ahlstrøm, A.P.; Fausto, R.S.; Larsen, S.H.; Mankoff, K.D.; Vandecrux, B.; Wright, P.J., 2023, "pypromice v1.5.3", https://doi.org/10.22008/FK2/3TSBF0, GEUS Dataverse, V20
The pypromice toolbox is for retrieving, processing and handling PROMICE (Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet) and GC-Net (Greenland Climate Network) automated weather station (AWS) data. The content here reflects pypromice releases for processing and handling the...
May 9, 2025 - Ice-Marginal Lakes
How, P.; Petersen, D.; Karlsson, N. B.; Kjeldsen, K. K.; Raundrup, K.; Messerli, A.; Rutishauser, A.; Carrivick, J. L.; Lea, J. M.; Fausto, R. S.; Ahlstrøm, A. P.; Andersen, S. B., 2025, "Greenland Ice-Marginal Lake Inventory annual time-series Edition 1", https://doi.org/10.22008/FK2/MBKW9N, GEUS Dataverse, V2
This ice-marginal lake dataset is a series of annual inventories, mapping the extent and presence of lakes across Greenland that share a margin with the Greenland Ice Sheet and/or the surrounding periphery glaciers. The annual inventories provide a comprehensive record of all ide...
Apr 28, 2025
Box, Jason Eric; Bahbah, Rasmus, 2025, "QAS winter balance survey 2025-04-23", https://doi.org/10.22008/FK2/WZEPGJ, GEUS Dataverse, V3
As part of a PROMICE mission, Jason Box and Rasmus Bahbah (Nielsen) made a snow water equivalent (SWE), a.k.a. winter balance survey at seven southern Greenland ice sheet locations spanning 241 m to 950 m above sea level. The survey date is essentially at the end of the 2024/2025...
Mar 25, 2025 - Digital elevation models of the Greenland ice sheet
Winstrup, Mai, 2023, "PRODEM: Annual summer DEMs of the marginal areas of the Greenland Ice Sheet", https://doi.org/10.22008/FK2/52WWHG, GEUS Dataverse, V10
Surface topography across the marginal zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet is constantly evolving in response to seasonal variability, longer-term climate change, and glacier dynamics. Yet, current Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) for the ice sheet are usually based on data from a mul...
Mar 13, 2025
van As, Dirk, 2022, "Watson River discharge", https://doi.org/10.22008/FK2/XEHYCM, GEUS Dataverse, V4
Hourly, daily and yearly values of meltwater discharge through the Watson River, west Greenland, according to the method described in the associated scientific publications.
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