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Research article
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06 Nov 2020
Research article |
| 06 Nov 2020
| 06 Nov 2020
The firn meltwater Retention Model Intercomparison Project (RetMIP): evaluation of nine firn models at four weather station sites on the Greenland ice sheet
Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark
Department of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Denmark,
Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
Ruth Mottram
Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Peter L. Langen
Department of Environmental Science, iClimate, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Robert S. Fausto
Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark
Martin Olesen
Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
C. Max Stevens
Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA,
USA
Vincent Verjans
Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Amber Leeson
Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Stefan Ligtenberg
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Weather Impact, Amersfoort, the Netherlands
Peter Kuipers Munneke
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Sergey Marchenko
Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Ward van Pelt
Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Colin R. Meyer
Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Sebastian B. Simonsen
National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs.
Lyngby, Denmark
Achim Heilig
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
Samira Samimi
Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Shawn Marshall
Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Horst Machguth
Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
Michael MacFerrin
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Masashi Niwano
Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency,
Tsukuba, 305-0052 Japan
Olivia Miller
US Geological Survey, Utah Water Science Center, Salt Lake City,
UT, USA
Clifford I. Voss
US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Jason E. Box
Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Short summary
In the vast interior of the Greenland ice sheet, snow accumulates into a thick and porous layer called firn. Each summer, the firn retains part of the meltwater generated at the surface and buffers sea-level rise. In this study, we compare nine firn models traditionally used to quantify this retention at four sites and evaluate their performance against a set of in situ observations. We highlight limitations of certain model designs and give perspectives for future model development.
In the vast interior of the Greenland ice sheet, snow accumulates into a thick and porous layer...
