Summit (Greenland)

Summit
Overview of the Summit Camp
height	3207  moh
location	Greenland
Coordinates	72 ° 34 '49 "  N , 38 ° 27' 25"  W Coordinates: 72 ° 34 '49 "  N , 38 ° 27' 25"  W.

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Aerial view of the Summit Camp.

The Summit ( English for "summit") is the summit of the Greenland Ice Sheet , with a height of 3216 meters.

It has been home to the permanently manned Summit Camp station since 1989 , which has a winter crew of five, while the summer population reaches up to 55.

On July 12, 2012, at temperatures around freezing point , ice melted for the first time since satellite observations began, affecting 97 percent of the area of ​​the Greenland Ice Sheet . In the course of the second European heat wave , another such event occurred in early August 2019.

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During the summer months, the camp is approached via Kangerlussuaq Airport with an LC-130 Hercules , which lands on a 4572 × 60 m long snow runway ( ICAO : BGSM) that is groomed and regularly prepared for aircraft with fixed runners. Winter flights are rare, it is with smaller aircraft with fixed skids as the Twin Otter from Norlandair flown.

Web links

Commons : Summit Camp  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• C. Saskia Bourgeois: The radiative properties of snow at Summit, Greenland . Dissertation, ETH Zurich 2006
• Greenland Summit Camp (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Maria-José Viñas: Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), July 24, 2012, accessed July 22, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Europe's warm air spikes Greenland melting to record levels. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) August 6, 2019.