Publications by authors named "Thomas L Mote"
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- - Recent studies suggest that climate change is causing significant ice loss in Greenland, driven by changes in weather patterns linked to Arctic warming.
- - Researchers found that a wavier atmospheric circulation over the North Atlantic is contributing to more frequent weather blocks over Greenland, intensifying the warming effects.
- - The decline in snow cover in North America during spring is not only intensifying local warming but also fostering weather conditions that maintain higher pressure over Greenland, further stabilizing these changes.
The Greenland Ice Sheet has been losing mass at an increased rate in recent decades. In northeast Greenland, increasing surface melt has accompanied speed-ups in the outlet glaciers of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, which contain over one meter of sea level rise potential. Here we show that the most intense northeast Greenland melt events are driven by atmospheric rivers (ARs) affecting northwest Greenland that induce foehn winds in the northeast.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEl Yunque National Forest, situated in the Luquillo Mountains of northeast Puerto Rico, is home to a wide range of climate-sensitive ecosystems and forest types. In particular, these ecosystems are highly sensitive to changes in the hydroclimate, even on short time scales. Current global climate models (GCMs) predict coarse-scale reductions in precipitation across the Caribbean prompting the need to investigate future fine-scale hydroclimate variability in the Luquillo Mountains.
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