On the importance of the albedo parameterization for the mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet in EC-Earth

Helsen, Michiel M.; van de Wal, Roderik S. W.; Reerink, Thomas J.; Bintanja, Richard; Madsen, Marianne S.; Yang, Shuting; Li, Qiang; Zhang, Qiong

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1949-2017

Articles | Volume 11, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1949-2017

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Mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1949-2017

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Articles | Volume 11, issue 4

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23 Aug 2017

Research article |

| 23 Aug 2017

On the importance of the albedo parameterization for the mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet in EC-Earth

Michiel M. Helsen, Roderik S. W. van de Wal, Thomas J. Reerink, Richard Bintanja, Marianne S. Madsen, Shuting Yang, Qiang Li, and Qiong Zhang

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'review', Xavier Fettweis, 19 Jan 2017
- AC1: 'author response', Michiel Helsen, 23 May 2017
RC2: 'Helsen et al. review', Anonymous Referee #2, 21 Jan 2017
- AC2: 'author response', Michiel Helsen, 23 May 2017
RC3: 'review of Helsen et al', Anonymous Referee #3, 27 Jan 2017
- AC3: 'author response', Michiel Helsen, 23 May 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Michiel Helsen on behalf of the Authors (23 May 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (06 Jun 2017) by Marco Tedesco

RR by Xavier Fettweis (06 Jun 2017)

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (15 Jun 2017)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (25 Jun 2017)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (26 Jun 2017) by Marco Tedesco

AR by Michiel Helsen on behalf of the Authors (06 Jul 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (10 Jul 2017) by Marco Tedesco

AR by Michiel Helsen on behalf of the Authors (12 Jul 2017)

Short summary

Ice sheets reflect most incoming solar radiation back into space due to their high reflectivity (albedo). The albedo of ice sheets changes as a function of, for example, liquid water content and ageing of snow. In this study we have improved the description of albedo over the Greenland ice sheet in a global climate model. This is an important step, which also improves estimates of the annual ice mass gain or loss over the ice sheet using this global climate model.