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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Glacier Termini(Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland)
Jun 2, 2022
Glacier terminus positions.
Greenland Ice Sheet outlet glacier terminus positions 1978-1987 from aero-photogrammetric map data
Jul 30, 2021 - Glacier Termini
Korsgaard, Niels, 2021, "Greenland Ice Sheet outlet glacier terminus positions 1978-1987 from aero-photogrammetric map data", https://doi.org/10.22008/FK2/B2JYVC, GEUS Dataverse, V1
The data set consists of 461 end of melt season outlet glacier terminus positions 1978-1987 from 452 marine terminating glaciers of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Documentation is found in README.pdf
Snow-water equivalent of snowpacks
Jul 2, 2021
Fausto, Robert S., 2021, "Snow-water equivalent of snowpacks", https://doi.org/10.22008/FK2/B5KVJV, GEUS Dataverse, V2
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. Please have a look at the readme file.
PROMICE perimeter airborne laser and radar altimetry survey
Mar 16, 2021
Sørensen, Louise, 2021, "PROMICE perimeter airborne laser and radar altimetry survey", https://doi.org/10.22008/FK2/KWAZGT, GEUS Dataverse, V1
Airborne surveys were carried out in 2007, 2011 and 2015 along the PROMICE perimeter, which approximately circumscribing the 1700 m elevation contour of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Ice-sheet surface elevation was measured by laser altimetry and bedrock elevation was measured by rada...
Greenland ice sheet mass balance assessment (1995-2019)
Mar 3, 2021
Colgan, William, 2021, "Greenland ice sheet mass balance assessment (1995-2019)", https://doi.org/10.22008/FK2/XOTO3K, GEUS Dataverse, V1
Input-output assessment of annual ice-sheet mass balance in eighteen ice-sheet sectors during 1995-2019. Ice-sheet output, or ice discharge across the grounding line, is estimated by adding downstream corrections to the ice flux across the PROMICE perimeter. Ice-sheet input, or a...
Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring (GEM) discharge data used by Mankoff et al. (2020)
Feb 26, 2021 - Freshwater Runoff
Langley, Kirsty, 2020, "Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring (GEM) discharge data used by Mankoff et al. (2020)", https://doi.org/10.22008/asiaq/data/meltwater_discharge/gem, GEUS Dataverse, V2
Data comes from Kirsty Langley at the Asiaq-Greenland Survey, Nuuk, Greenland, is collected as part of the Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring Programme (GEM) project. The data is available from the GEM website ( https://data.g-e-m.dk/ ) but here is collected into one CSV file and inc...
Albedo regression of the Greenland ice sheet
Albedo regression of the Greenland ice sheet
Dec 23, 2020 - Student reports
Wim Damgaard Rothuizen; Thomas Anthony Hymas, 2020, "Albedo regression of the Greenland ice sheet", https://doi.org/10.22008/FK2/QWZ5HL, GEUS Dataverse, V1
The project investigates the use of machine learning regression algorithms to estimate the broadband albedo factor on the Greenland Ice Sheet. The algorithms use data from the Ocean and Land Color Instrument (OLCI) on the Sentinel 3 Satellite and compare it to in-situ measurement...
Greenland ice sheet meltwater runoff from the Kangerlussuaq and Isunnguata Sermia catchments using observation-based surface energy balance modeling (2009-2019)
Nov 6, 2020
van As, D.; Fausto, R. S.; Meierbachtol, T.; Box, J. E.; Claesson Liljedahl, L., 2020, "Greenland ice sheet meltwater runoff from the Kangerlussuaq and Isunnguata Sermia catchments using observation-based surface energy balance modeling (2009-2019)", https://doi.org/10.22008/FK2/GUW0Y8, GEUS Dataverse, V1
Background: This readme provides limited metadata for the Greenland ice sheet meltwater runoff from the Kangerlussuaq / Watson River and Isunnguata Sermia catchments in southwest Greenland. A more complete description of this product can be found in: Van As D, Bech Mikkelsen A, H...
Discharge measurement at the outlet stream of Qaanaaq Glacier in the summer 2017−2019
Oct 23, 2020 - Freshwater Runoff
Kondo, Ken, 2020, "Discharge measurement at the outlet stream of Qaanaaq Glacier in the summer 2017−2019", https://doi.org/10.22008/hokkaido/data/meltwater_discharge/qaanaaq, GEUS Dataverse, V2
Data comes from Ken Kondo and Shin Sugiyama at the Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Japan. Additional details on the data collection can be found in the DischargeMeasurement200214.pdf file in this dataset Gauge location: 77.475273975 N, -69.303039228 E
Snow and Firn temperature on the Greenland’s ice sheet
Sep 11, 2020 - Student reports
Rasmussen, Magne E., 2020, "Snow and Firn temperature on the Greenland’s ice sheet", https://doi.org/10.22008/FK2/59EKFO, GEUS Dataverse, V2
Firn temperatures from the Greenland ice sheet have been collected, analyzed and combined to perform results concerning selected locations and the entire ice sheet. The purpose has been to investigate whether the recent atmospheric warming observed at the Greenland ice sheet has...
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