Sensitivity of the current Antarctic surface mass balance to sea surface conditions using MAR

Kittel, Christoph; Amory, Charles; Agosta, Cécile; Delhasse, Alison; Doutreloup, Sébastien; Huot, Pierre-Vincent; Wyard, Coraline; Fichefet, Thierry; Fettweis, Xavier

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-3827-2018

Articles | Volume 12, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-3827-2018

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-3827-2018

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

Articles | Volume 12, issue 12

Research article

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07 Dec 2018

Research article |

| 07 Dec 2018

Sensitivity of the current Antarctic surface mass balance to sea surface conditions using MAR

Christoph Kittel, Charles Amory, Cécile Agosta, Alison Delhasse, Sébastien Doutreloup, Pierre-Vincent Huot, Coraline Wyard, Thierry Fichefet, and Xavier Fettweis

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RC1: 'Review of Kittel et al. (2018)', Anonymous Referee #1, 24 Jul 2018
- AC1: 'Responses to Reviewer #1', Christoph Kittel, 16 Oct 2018
RC2: 'review: Sensitivity of the current Antarctic surface mass balance to sea surface conditions using MAR', Anonymous Referee #2, 11 Sep 2018
- AC2: 'Responses to Reviewer #2', Christoph Kittel, 16 Oct 2018

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AR by Christoph Kittel on behalf of the Authors (18 Oct 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (31 Oct 2018) by Alexander Robinson

AR by Christoph Kittel on behalf of the Authors (01 Nov 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (08 Nov 2018) by Alexander Robinson

AR by Christoph Kittel on behalf of the Authors (09 Nov 2018)

Short summary

Regional climate models (RCMs) used to estimate the surface mass balance (SMB) of Antarctica depend on boundary forcing fields including sea surface conditions. Here, we assess the sensitivity of the Antarctic SMB to perturbations in sea surface conditions with the RCM MAR using unchanged atmospheric conditions. Significant SMB anomalies are found for SSC perturbations in the range of CMIP5 global climate model biases.