ice-sheet mass balance
A range correction for ICESat and its potential impact on ice-sheet mass balance studies
... NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICE- Sat) that degrades elevation precision and introduces a small but significant elevation trend over the ICESat mission pe- ...Filchner–Ronne ice ...
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Application of GRACE to the assessment of model-based estimates of monthly Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance (2003–2012)
... Greenland mass balance, our results indicate that consistent intra-annual variations, not explained by SMB, can accumu- late over time and contribute significant regional trends in mass ...and ...
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The impact of weather and climate variability upon estimates of ice-sheet mass balance from satellite radar altimeters
... and ice; the pressure on any parcel of snow increases as fresh snow is deposited above it; and the initial density is altered by the action of the winds which compact the surface ...
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Reconstruction of the 1979–2006 Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance using the regional climate model MAR
... (Soil Ice Snow Vegetation Atmosphere ...energy balance model that deter- mines the exchanges between the sea ice, the ice sheet sur- face, the snow-covered tundra, and the atmosphere ...
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Autonomous ice sheet surface mass balance measurements from cosmic rays
... of mass accumulation and net bal- ance on glaciers and ice sheets are sparse due to the diffi- culty of acquiring manual measurements and the lack of a re- liable remote-sensing ...of mass ac- ...
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Regional Antarctic snow accumulation over the past 1000 years
... Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) is the largest reservoir of fresh water on the planet and has the potential to raise global sea level by about ...The mass balance of the AIS constitutes the ...
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Sensitivity of Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass balance to surface albedo parameterization: a study with a regional climate model
... surface mass balance along the K-transect for the period 1991 to 2010 with results of RACMO2 using the CONTROL set- ...surface mass balance estimates derived from stake measurements have a ...
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Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance: evaluating simulations and making projections with regional climate models
... the ice sheet margins ...the ice sheet itself have been ...the ice sheet mar- gin, and underestimate further away, while MAR tends to un- derestimate at all ...
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NHM–SMAP: spatially and temporally high-resolution nonhydrostatic atmospheric model coupled with detailed snow process model for Greenland Ice Sheet
... 2013–2014 mass balance years by referring to the simu- lation data from the online version of ...large mass losses in which ob- served SMB reached values lower than −4 m water equiv- alent (m ...
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Reconstructions of the 1900–2015 Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance using the regional climate MAR model
... Long-term ice core data facilitate validation of an overall ice sheet snowfall increase in the first half of the last century, and the comparison with MAR is good where a few ice cores are ...
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Effect of uncertainty in surface mass balance–elevation feedback on projections of the future sea level contribution of the Greenland ice sheet
... The climate community have been attempting to quantify uncertainty in global climate model (GCM) predictions for some time, focusing on uncertainty in their parameter val- ues with perturbed parameter ensembles (PPEs) ...
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Evaluation of the updated regional climate model RACMO2.3: summer snowfall impact on the Greenland Ice Sheet
... Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) surface mass balance (SMB) differences between the updated po- lar version of the RACMO climate model ...dark ice with highly reflective fresh snow, these ...
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LIVVkit 2.1: automated and extensible ice sheet model validation
... Community Ice Sheet Model, version 2 (CISM2; Price et ...dynamic ice sheet component forced by a time-varying surface mass balance (SMB) ...surface mass balance ...
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Surface mass balance model intercomparison for the Greenland ice sheet
... Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance and its ...the ice sheet mask. Total surface mass balance estimates from the four models for the ice sheet ...
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Influence of temperature fluctuations on equilibrium ice sheet volume
... surface mass balance of an ice sheet model is non- linear with respect to temperature has previously been inves- tigated in several ...tal ice sheets, Roe and Lindzen (2001) show that ...
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Elevation change of the Greenland Ice Sheet due to surface mass balance and firn processes, 1960–2014
... in ice dynamics plus the error, the error is then assessed by the root mean square (rms) of the detrended residuals (Table ...the ice-dynamical trend (shown as green curves in the pan- els of ...the ...
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The modelled liquid water balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet
... the ice sheet is losing mass through increased surface melt and as- sociated meltwater ...to mass loss from the ice sheet (Enderlin et ...surface mass balance (SMB) ...
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Eemian Greenland ice sheet simulated with a higher-order model shows strong sensitivity to surface mass balance forcing
... require ice sheet boundary mi- gration, ...evolving ice streams, would be ...initial ice sheet ...and ice cores (NEEM community members, 2013) provide a sea level rise esti- mate ...
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Surface mass balance downscaling through elevation classes in an Earth system model: application to the Greenland ice sheet
... the ice-sheet- covered land grid cell, the atmospheric mean elevation per grid cell is lower than the land model mean elevation per grid ...the ice sheet contributes to this areal ...the ...
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A daily, 1 km resolution data set of downscaled Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance (1958–2015)
... bare ice albedo correction is evenly applied to both snow-covered and bare ice regions experiencing surface melt and runoff, as no relevant proxy, reflecting day-to-day snow coverage, could be derived from ...
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