Abstract
The melt extent, duration and melt season on the Greenland ice sheet were estimated using an edge detection technique on passive microwave data from the SSM/I and SMMR instruments (18/19V GHz channel) for the period 1979 to 1997. The annual brightness temperature (Tb) time series at a pixel location that experiences summer melt has a steep rise and drop in Tb with the onset and end of melt, respectively. A derivative‐of‐Gaussian edge detector is used to detect edges corresponding to the onset and end of melt. The time lapsed between the first upward and last downward edge on the annual Tb time series gives an estimate of the melt season and the time lapsed between successive upward and downward edges gives the duration of melt. While the maximum melt extent increased by 18%, the total duration of melt increased by 3.7% and the total melt season decreased by 3.8% during the period 1979–1997.
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