Articles | Volume 12, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-1091-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-1091-2018
Research article
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26 Mar 2018
Research article |  | 26 Mar 2018

Extreme temperature events on Greenland in observations and the MAR regional climate model

Amber A. Leeson, Emma Eastoe, and Xavier Fettweis

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AR by Amber Leeson on behalf of the Authors (19 Oct 2017)  Author's response   Manuscript 
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (24 Dec 2017) by Marco Tedesco
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (19 Jan 2018) by Marco Tedesco
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ED: Publish as is (29 Jan 2018) by Marco Tedesco
AR by Amber Leeson on behalf of the Authors (06 Feb 2018)
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Short summary
Future melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet is predicted using regional climate models (RCMs). Here, we assess the ability of the MAR RCM to reproduce observed extreme temperature events and the melt energy produced during these times at 14 locations. We find that MAR underestimates temperatures by >0.5 °C during extreme events, which leads to an underestimate in melt energy by up to 41 %. This is potentially an artefact of the data used to drive the MAR simulation and needs to be corrected for.