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Brief communication
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01 Mar 2016
Brief communication |
| 01 Mar 2016
Brief Communication: Upper-air relaxation in RACMO2 significantly improves modelled interannual surface mass balance variability in Antarctica
Willem Jan van de Berg
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
IMAU, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Brooke Medley
NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
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Short summary
Regional climate models improve the spatial surface mass balance (SMB) patterns in Antarctica compared to reanalyses, but they deteriorate the representation of interannual variability in SMB. Hence, we implemented additional nudging in our regional climate model RACMO2. Using annual SMB observations of the Twaites drainage basin, Antarctica, we show that this nudging vastly improves the representation of interannual variability without significant deterioration of the modelled mean SMB fields.
Regional climate models improve the spatial surface mass balance (SMB) patterns in Antarctica...
