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25 May 2016
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| 25 May 2016
The climatic mass balance of Svalbard glaciers: a 10-year simulation with a coupled atmosphere–glacier mass balance model
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Thorben Dunse
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Emily Collier
Climate System Research Group, Institute of Geography, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany
Thomas V. Schuler
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Terje K. Berntsen
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Jack Kohler
Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway
Bartłomiej Luks
Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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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.
A high-resolution, coupled atmosphere--climatic mass balance (CMB) model is applied to Svalbard...
