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Greenland Ice Sheet seasonal and spatial mass variability from model simulations and GRACE (2003–2012)
Patrick M. Alexander
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 365 5th Ave.,
New York, NY 10016, USA
City College of New York, City University
of New York, 160 Convent Ave., New York, NY 10031, USA
NASA
Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025, USA
Marco Tedesco
City College of New York, City University
of New York, 160 Convent Ave., New York, NY 10031, USA
Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 365 5th Ave.,
New York, NY 10016, USA
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, 61 Route 9W,
Palisades, NY 10964, USA
Nicole-Jeanne Schlegel
Joint Institute for Regional Earth System
Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095,
USA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
4800 Oak Grove Drive MS 300-227, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
Scott B. Luthcke
Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Xavier Fettweis
Laboratory of Climatology, Department of
Geography, University of Liège, no. 2 Allé du 6 Aout, 4000,
Liège, Belgium
Eric Larour
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
4800 Oak Grove Drive MS 300-227, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
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- Simulated retreat of Jakobshavn Isbræ during the 21st century X. Guo et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-3139-2019
- Possibility of Stabilizing the Greenland Ice Sheet X. Wang et al. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002152
- Reconstructions of the 1900–2015 Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance using the regional climate MAR model X. Fettweis et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1015-2017
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- The surface albedo of the Greenland Ice Sheet between 1982 and 2015 from the CLARA-A2 dataset and its relationship to the ice sheet's surface mass balance A. Riihelä et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2597-2019
- Seasonal mass variations show timing and magnitude of meltwater storage in the Greenland Ice Sheet J. Ran et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2981-2018
- The modelled liquid water balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet C. Steger et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2507-2017
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Short summary
We compared satellite-derived estimates of spatial and seasonal variations in Greenland Ice Sheet mass with a set of model simulations, revealing an agreement between models and satellite estimates for the ice-sheet-wide seasonal fluctuations in mass, but disagreement at finer spatial scales. The model simulations underestimate low-elevation mass loss. Improving the ability of models to capture variations and trends in Greenland Ice Sheet mass is important for estimating future sea level rise.
We compared satellite-derived estimates of spatial and seasonal variations in Greenland Ice...
