{"id":2038,"date":"2020-01-30T09:18:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T14:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2020-01-30T09:18:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T14:18:47","slug":"owu-talk-its-getting-hot-in-here-assessing-greenlands-melt-behavior-driven-by-wind-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/?p=2038","title":{"rendered":"OWU Talk: \u201cIt\u2019s Getting Hot In Here: Assessing Greenland\u2019s Melt Behavior Driven by Wind Events\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/93\/2020\/01\/Rowley.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2039\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/93\/2020\/01\/Rowley.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"583\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/93\/2020\/01\/Rowley.png 583w, https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/93\/2020\/01\/Rowley-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 583px) 85vw, 583px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SCIENCE LECTURE SERIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, January 30 at 4:10 p.m.<br \/>\nScience Center 163<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Nathan Amador Rowley<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Assistant Professor of Geology &amp; Geography, Ohio Wesleyan University<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s Getting Hot In Here: Assessing Greenland\u2019s Melt Behavior Driven by Wind Events\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Over the past few decades, the acceleration of meltwater production along the periphery of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) is driving the observed increase in global sea level. During the summer months, surface meltwater is driven by air temperature above the melting point and solar radiation receipt at the surface \u2013 melting accumulated wintertime snow. The orographic nature of the GrIS has shown to significantly influence wind patterns at automated weather stations in the melt zone, near the fast-flowing Sermeq Kujalleq (formerly known as Jakobshavn Isbr\u00e6) Glacier. I have identified a particular set of synoptic conditions, known as piteraq events, that are surface winds that bring adiabatically-warmed air from the interior of the ice sheet. Piteraq winds, through compressional heating, warm the ablation (or melt) zone and thus enhance melt; beyond what would be done by solar radiation alone. Commonly mislabeled as katabatic winds, piteraq winds resemble the F\u00f6hn winds of the Alps, or Chinook winds of the Rockies. During the 2011 and 2012 summer months, a series of piteraq events in the Sermeq Kujalleq Ablation Region, or SKAR, lead surface temperature at nearby weather stations to be nearly 2\u00b0C higher than the 1980-2010 mean.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCIENCE LECTURE SERIES Thursday, January 30 at 4:10 p.m. Science Center 163 Dr. Nathan Amador Rowley Assistant Professor of Geology &amp; Geography, Ohio Wesleyan University \u201cIt\u2019s Getting Hot In Here: Assessing Greenland\u2019s Melt Behavior Driven by Wind Events\u201d Over the past few decades, the acceleration of meltwater production along the periphery of the Greenland Ice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/?p=2038\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;OWU Talk: \u201cIt\u2019s Getting Hot In Here: Assessing Greenland\u2019s Melt Behavior Driven by Wind Events\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate","category-opportunities"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2040,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions\/2040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}