Marco Tedesco at the University of Maryland suggests a new technique for remote sensing of snowmelt atop the Greenland ice sheet. When he uses it, he reports:
Long-term results show that snowmelt extent has been increasing at a rate of ?40,000 Km2 per year for the past 14 years.
Snowmelt detection over the Greenland ice sheet from SSM/I brightness temperature daily variations, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 34, L02504, doi:10.1029/2006GL028466, 2007