Summit Station is a research station at the top of the Greenland ice sheet and is inhabited all year round. It requires permission from the Danish Polar Centre under the Greenland Parliament to visit the station. Photo: Brennan Linsley/archive/Ritzau Scanpix
Greenland ice sheet temperature increased
At the top of Greenland’s ice sheet – a point called Summit Station – a record warm July has been recorded, as well as an overall heat record for the summer months, according to the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) in connection with the seasonal report for Greenland’s summer 2023. The average temperature for all three summer months ended at minus 10.4 degrees, which is 1.0 degree warmer than the old record. It is also 3.4 degrees higher than the climate normal of minus 13.8 degrees. The climate normal is the average temperature in July in the period 1991-2020 and is used as a reference to compare changes in climate from previous periods to now and the expected future climate. /ritzau/