surface mass balance
Greenland ice sheet surface mass-balance variability:
... the surface mass balance to its primary controls: temperature and ...the surface mass balance, where both temperature and precipitation have ...ice-sheet surface ...
Surface mass balance model intercomparison for the Greenland ice sheet
... Modelled surface mass balance uncertainty may be smaller than previously thought due to variations in the native mask, and so we recommend the use of an accurate common mask for future modelling ...
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Calibration of a surface mass balance model for global-scale applications
... of surface mass balance mod- els have large uncertainties, as a result of poor climate in- put data and limited availability of mass balance measure- ...modelled mass ...
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Sensitivity of the current Antarctic surface mass balance to sea surface conditions using MAR
... sea surface temperature and sea ice concentration data set for the ERA-40 reanalysis, ECMWF, Reading, UK, ERA-40 Project Report Series ...sheet surface mass balance between 1990–2010, using ...
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Quantifying the resolution level where the GRACE satellites can separate Greenland’s glacial mass balance from surface mass balance
... Abstract. Mass change over Greenland can be caused by ei- ther changes in the glacial dynamic mass balance (DMB) or the surface mass balance ...entire mass column with ...
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Comparison of observations and modelling of surface mass balance variations in East Antarctica
... of mass variations, where I removed modelled surface mass balance variations from the GRACE observations, assuming that the observed signal is solely due to ice sheet mass ...in ...
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Towards a re-assessment of the surface mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet
... the mass balance and especially the surface mass bal- ance of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) are poorly ...GrIS surface mass balance as well as the inherent uncertainties ...
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A synthesis of the Antarctic surface mass balance during the last 800 yr
... Correspondence to: M. Frezzotti ([email protected]) Received: 27 December 2011 – Published in The Cryosphere Discuss.: 22 February 2012 Revised: 23 January 2013 – Accepted: 23 January 2013 – Published: 20 ...
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Evaluation of the CMIP5 models in the aim of regional modelling of the Antarctic surface mass balance
... The surface mass balance (SMB) of the Antarc- tic Ice Sheet cannot be reliably deduced from global cli- mate models (GCMs), both because their spatial resolution is insufficient and because their ...
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Estimation of the Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance for the 20th and 21st centuries
... Fettweis, X.: Reconstruction of the 1979–2006 Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance using the regional climate model MAR, The Cryosphere, 1, 21–40, 2007. Gregory, J., Dixon, K., Stouffer, R. J., ...
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Observationally constrained surface mass balance of Larsen C ice shelf, Antarctica
... Revised: 29 August 2017 – Accepted: 8 September 2017 – Published: 1 November 2017 Abstract. The surface mass balance (SMB) of the Larsen C ice shelf (LCIS), Antarctica, is poorly constrained due to a ...
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A new 200‐year spatial reconstruction of West Antarctic surface mass balance
... resolution surface mass balance (SMB) over the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) spanning 1800 –2010 is reconstructed by means of ice core records combined with the outputs of the European Centre for ...
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The modelled surface mass balance of the Antarctic Peninsula at 5.5 km horizontal resolution
... of surface mass balance (SMB) over the period 1979–2014 for the Antarctic Peninsula (AP), generated by the regional atmospheric climate model ...
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Past and future sea-level change from the surface mass balance of glaciers
... the surface mass and energy balance of the glaciers, in favor of applying a bulk estimate of the specific mass balance, de- pending on temperature and precipitation ...the ...
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Comparison of surface mass balance of ice sheets simulated by positive-degree-day method and energy balance approach
... The values of the melt factors in the PDD scheme which are suitable for a realistic simulation of ice sheets over the entire glacial cycle are not known (Hock, 2003). In the fol- lowing, we attempted to find a unique set ...
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Sensitivity of Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass balance to surface albedo parameterization: a study with a regional climate model
... the surface mass balance (SMB) of the Greenland Ice Sheet, as modeled us- ing a regional atmospheric climate model, to various param- eter settings in the albedo ...
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Climate and surface mass balance of coastal West Antarctica resolved by regional climate modelling
... 5 Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA 6 Department of Geology, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, USA 7 British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK ABSTRACT. West Antarctic climate ...
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Climate and surface mass balance of coastal West Antarctica resolved by regional climate modelling
... 5 Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA 6 Department of Geology, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, USA 7 British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK ABSTRACT. West Antarctic climate ...
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Improved representation of East Antarctic surface mass balance in a regional atmospheric climate model
... 6 Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, The Netherlands ABSTRACT. This study evaluates the impact of a recent upgrade in the physics package of the regional atmospheric climate model RACMO2 on the ...
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Regional grid refinement in an Earth system model: impacts on the simulated Greenland surface mass balance
... Received: 23 November 2018 – Discussion started: 6 December 2018 Revised: 8 May 2019 – Accepted: 14 May 2019 – Published: 3 June 2019 Abstract. In this study, the resolution dependence of the sim- ulated Greenland ice ...
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