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Research article
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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
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Roderik S. W. van de Wal
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Thomas J. Reerink
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Richard Bintanja
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, the Netherlands
Marianne S. Madsen
Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Shuting Yang
Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Qiong Zhang
Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Surface mass balance and energy balance of the 79N Glacier (Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden, NE Greenland) modeled by linking COSIPY and Polar WRF M. Blau et al. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2021.56
- The role of an interactive Greenland ice sheet in the coupled climate-ice sheet model EC-Earth-PISM M. Madsen et al. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-022-06184-6
- Changes in the Antarctic’s Summer Surface Albedo, Observed by Satellite since 1982 and Associated with Sea Ice Anomalies Y. Sun et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15204940
- Modelling snowpack on ice surfaces with the ORCHIDEE land surface model: application to the Greenland ice sheet S. Charbit et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-5067-2024
- Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass Loss: Recent Developments in Observation and Modeling M. van den Broeke et al. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-017-0084-8
- Regional grid refinement in an Earth system model: impacts on the simulated Greenland surface mass balance L. van Kampenhout et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1547-2019
- Simulating the mid-Holocene, last interglacial and mid-Pliocene climate with EC-Earth3-LR Q. Zhang et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-1147-2021
- Snow Albedo Seasonality and Trend from MODIS Sensor and Ground Data at Johnsons Glacier, Livingston Island, Maritime Antarctica J. Calleja et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19163569
- Towards understanding potential atmospheric contributions to abrupt climate changes: characterizing changes to the North Atlantic eddy-driven jet over the last deglaciation H. Andres & L. Tarasov https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1621-2019
- Simulated Greenland Surface Mass Balance in the GISS ModelE2 GCM: Role of the Ice Sheet Surface P. Alexander et al. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JF004772
- Dry snow initialization and densification over the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets in the ORCHIDEE land surface model P. Conesa et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-4973-2026
- Temporal Variability of Surface Reflectance Supersedes Spatial Resolution in Defining Greenland’s Bare-Ice Albedo T. Irvine-Fynn et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14010062
- Recent Progress in Greenland Ice Sheet Modelling H. Goelzer et al. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-017-0073-y
- The albedo loss from the melting of the Greenland ice sheet and the social cost of carbon S. Gschnaller https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02936-7
- The EC-Earth3 Earth system model for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6 R. Döscher et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-2973-2022
- Unveiling Glacier Mass Balance: Albedo Aggregation Insights for Austrian and Norwegian Glaciers F. Ye et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16111914
- Accelerated Greenland Ice Sheet Mass Loss Under High Greenhouse Gas Forcing as Simulated by the Coupled CESM2.1‐CISM2.1 L. Muntjewerf et al. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS002031
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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.
Ice sheets reflect most incoming solar radiation back into space due to their high reflectivity...
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