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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• van Wessem, Jan Melchior
• van de Berg, Willem Jan
• Noel, Brice P. Y
• van Meijgaard, Erik
• Amory, Charles
• Birnbaum, Gerit
• Jakobs, Constantijn L
• Kruger, Konstantin
• Lenaerts, Jan T. M
• Lhermitte, Stef
• Ligtenberg, Stefan R. M
• Medley, Brooke
• Reijmer, Carleen H
• van Tricht, Kristof
• Trusel, Luke D
• van Ulft, Lambertus H
• Wouters, Bert
• Wuite, Jan
• van den Broeke, Michiel R

Titel

Modelling the climate and surface mass balance of polar ice sheets using RACMO2 – Part 2: Antarctica (1979–2016)

Ist Teil von

• The cryosphere, 2018-04, Vol.12 (4), p.1479-1498

Ort / Verlag

Katlenburg-Lindau: Copernicus GmbH

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We evaluate modelled Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) near-surface climate, surface mass balance (SMB) and surface energy balance (SEB) from the updated polar version of the regional atmospheric climate model, RACMO2 (1979-2016). The updated model, referred to as RACMO2.3p2, incorporates upper-air relaxation, a revised topography, tuned parameters in the cloud scheme to generate more precipitation towards the AIS interior and modified snow properties reducing drifting snow sublimation and increasing surface snowmelt.