Quantifying the snowmelt–albedo feedback at Neumayer Station, East Antarctica

Jakobs, Constantijn L.; Reijmer, Carleen H.; Kuipers Munneke, Peter; König-Langlo, Gert; van den Broeke, Michiel R.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1473-2019

Articles | Volume 13, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1473-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1473-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 5

Research article

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15 May 2019

Research article |

| 15 May 2019

Quantifying the snowmelt–albedo feedback at Neumayer Station, East Antarctica

Constantijn L. Jakobs, Carleen H. Reijmer, Peter Kuipers Munneke, Gert König-Langlo, and Michiel R. van den Broeke

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review on « Jakobs, C. L., Reijmer, C. H., Kuipers Munneke, P., König-Langlo, G., and van den Broeke, M. R.: Quantifying the snowmelt-albedo feedback at Neumayer Station, East Antarctica, The Cryosphere Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2018-221 »', Ghislain Picard, 21 Dec 2018
- AC1: 'Author comment to referee comments RC1 and RC2', Stan Jakobs, 11 Mar 2019
RC2: 'Comment on "Quantifying the snowmelt-albedo feedback at Neumayer Station, East Antarctica" by Jacobs et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 27 Dec 2018
- AC1: 'Author comment to referee comments RC1 and RC2', Stan Jakobs, 11 Mar 2019
AC1: 'Author comment to referee comments RC1 and RC2', Stan Jakobs, 11 Mar 2019

Peer-review completion

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

AR by Stan Jakobs on behalf of the Authors (11 Mar 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (15 Mar 2019) by Mark Flanner

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (18 Mar 2019)

RR by Ghislain Picard (09 Apr 2019)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (26 Apr 2019) by Mark Flanner

AR by Stan Jakobs on behalf of the Authors (30 Apr 2019) Author's response Manuscript

Post-review adjustments

AA: Author's adjustment | EA: Editor approval

AA by Stan Jakobs on behalf of the Authors (13 May 2019) Author's adjustment Manuscript

EA: Adjustments approved (13 May 2019) by Mark Flanner

Short summary

We use 24 years of observations at Neumayer Station, East Antarctica, to calculate the surface energy balance and the associated surface melt, which we find to be mainly driven by the absorption of solar radiation. Meltwater can refreeze in the subsurface snow layers, thereby decreasing the surface albedo and hence allowing for more absorption of solar radiation. By implementing an albedo parameterisation, we show that this feedback accounts for a threefold increase in surface melt at Neumayer.