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By Paul Homewood

Hottest Year Update:

Greenland’s Ice Sheet has been perfectly normal this last 12 months, with the Surface Mass Balancing increasing in size at the normal rate:

As usual, please read DMI’s explanatory note, to the effect that SMB does not include calving losses:

The Greenland Ice Sheet evolves throughout the year as weather conditions change. Precipitation increases the mass of the ice sheet, whilst greater warmth leads to melting, which causes it to lose mass. The term surface mass balance is used to describe the isolated gain and loss of mass of the surface of the ice sheet – excluding the mass that is lost when glaciers calve off icebergs and melt as they come into contact with warm seawater.

I hope to shortly update the full data, including calving, once DMI publish it.

But it is SMB which is the real driver of what is happening on the icesheet. A warmer climate would normally be expected to reduce SMB, but this is clearly not happening.