Multi-year analysis of distributed glacier mass balance modelling and equilibrium line altitude on King George Island, Antarctic Peninsula

Falk, Ulrike; López, Damián A.; Silva-Busso, Adrián

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-1211-2018

Articles | Volume 12, issue 4

The Cryosphere, 12, 1211–1232, 2018

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-1211-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

The Cryosphere, 12, 1211–1232, 2018

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-1211-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 4

Research article 10 Apr 2018

Research article | 10 Apr 2018

Multi-year analysis of distributed glacier mass balance modelling and equilibrium line altitude on King George Island, Antarctic Peninsula

Ulrike Falk et al.

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RC1: 'Review of Falk et al, tc-2017-232', Anonymous Referee #1, 18 Dec 2017
- AC1: 'Reply to reviewer comments #1', Ulrike Falk, 17 Jan 2018
RC2: 'anonymous reviewer comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 14 Jan 2018
- AC3: 'Reply', Ulrike Falk, 26 Jan 2018

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

AR by Anna Wenzel on behalf of the Authors (23 Feb 2018) Author's response

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (09 Mar 2018) by Thomas Mölg

Dear authors,

Both referees concluded that the science in this manuscript builds on a sound basis, yet the presentation of the MS (in particular, structure) must be improved. With the revision, this improvment is evident and will help the readability of the paper.

I somewhat regret that the results are not analyzed more with regard to the governing processes, but this is a question of study focus and therefore the choice of the authors.

Before a decision can be made, I would in any case invite you to consider the following remarks:

P13/L6: delete "s" (typo)

P14/L1: delete "physics" (you are nowhere looking at the model physics here)

P15/L6: "evident" instead of "visible"

P16/L4: "by changes ..."

P18/L30: suggest a more modest word for "major" - this is really just an interpretation and not backed up by numbers.

Please re-read sections 5 and 6 critically; it seems that a part of the AAR discussion of the conclusions (Sec. 6) should be in Sec. 5.

Figure 14 caption: ".... with the standard deviation of the time series as grey envelope."

Figure 15: Why are you not using colors? Would be easier to distinguish the seasons than grey tones do.

Figure 16 caption: please say what the grey shading means

Figure 18 legend: it is not entirely clear that "Mass balance stakes" refers to the yellow dots.

All figures using "CMB" in the axis titles: the abbreviation is nowhere defined, as far as I can see. Please do so in the relevant figure captions.

Order of figures: With the re-structuring of the MS, the order of figures seems to have been messed up. For example, the mentioning of Figures 8 and 9 is only in Section 4.2, while Figures 10 and 11 appear in Section 4.1. - - Please re-order the figures as they appear in the text.

Best regards,
Thomas Mölg

Handling Editor &
Co-Editor-In-Chief TC

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AR by Svenja Lange on behalf of the Authors (19 Mar 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (19 Mar 2018) by Thomas Mölg

Short summary

The present study address the glacier–atmosphere relation on King George Island (South Shetland Islands) at the northern Antarctic Peninsula. The focus is on 5 years of glacier mass balance observations and the adaptation of a spatially distributed, physically based mass balance model. The focus is on the analysis of equilibrium line altitude and catchment runoff. The observed changes are expected to have a direct impact on environmental conditions in coastal waters and biota.