Articles | Volume 12, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-1479-2018
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-1479-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
| 
20 Apr 2018
Research article |
| 20 Apr 2018
| 20 Apr 2018
Modelling the climate and surface mass balance of polar ice sheets using RACMO2 – Part 2: Antarctica (1979–2016)
Jan Melchior van Wessem
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Willem Jan van de Berg
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Brice P. Y. Noël
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Erik van Meijgaard
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, the Netherlands
Charles Amory
Department of Geography, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium
Gerit Birnbaum
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
Constantijn L. Jakobs
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Konstantin Krüger
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
Jan T. M. Lenaerts
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder CO, USA
Stef Lhermitte
Department of Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Stefan R. M. Ligtenberg
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Brooke Medley
Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Carleen H. Reijmer
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Kristof van Tricht
KU Leuven, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Leuven, Belgium
Luke D. Trusel
Department of Geology, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, USA
Lambertus H. van Ulft
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, the Netherlands
Bert Wouters
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Jan Wuite
ENVEO IT GmbH, Innsbruck, Austria
Michiel R. van den Broeke
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Data sets
Ice and Climate Published data B. Medley et al. and J. M. Van Wessem et al. https://www.projects.science.uu.nl/iceclimate/publications/data/2018/index.php
Short summary
We present a detailed evaluation of the latest version of the regional atmospheric climate model RACMO2.3p2 (1979-2016) over the Antarctic ice sheet. The model successfully reproduces the present-day climate and surface mass balance (SMB) when compared with an extensive set of observations and improves on previous estimates of the Antarctic climate and SMB.
This study shows that the latest version of RACMO2 can be used for high-resolution future projections over the AIS.
We present a detailed evaluation of the latest version of the regional atmospheric climate model...
