The climatic mass balance of Svalbard glaciers: a 10-year simulation with a  coupled atmosphere–glacier mass balance model

Aas, Kjetil S.; Dunse, Thorben; Collier, Emily; Schuler, Thomas V.; Berntsen, Terje K.; Kohler, Jack; Luks, Bartłomiej

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1089-2016

Articles | Volume 10, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1089-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1089-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 3

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25 May 2016

Research article |

| 25 May 2016

The climatic mass balance of Svalbard glaciers: a 10-year simulation with a coupled atmosphere–glacier mass balance model

Kjetil S. Aas, Thorben Dunse, Emily Collier, Thomas V. Schuler, Terje K. Berntsen, Jack Kohler, and Bartłomiej Luks

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RC C2358: 'Review of “Simulating the climatic mass balance of Svalbard glaciers from 2003 to 2013 with a high-resolution coupled atmosphere-glacier model” by K.S. Aas et al. for The Cryosphere.', Anonymous Referee #1, 24 Nov 2015
- AC C3400: 'Reply to referee #1', Kjetil Schanke Aas, 29 Apr 2016
RC C2376: 'Review comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 25 Nov 2015
- AC C3401: 'Reply to referee #2', Kjetil Schanke Aas, 29 Apr 2016

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AR by Kjetil Schanke Aas on behalf of the Authors (29 Apr 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (08 May 2016) by Valentina Radic

AR by Kjetil Schanke Aas on behalf of the Authors (13 May 2016)

Short summary

A high-resolution, coupled atmosphere--climatic mass balance (CMB) model is applied to Svalbard for the period 2003 to 2013. The mean CMB during this period is negative but displays large spatial and temporal variations. Comparison with observations on different scales shows a good overall model performance except for one particular glacier, where wind strongly affects the spatial patterns of CMB. The model also shows considerable sensitivity to model resolution, especially on local scales.