Relating regional and point measurements of accumulation  in southwest Greenland

Heilig, Achim; Eisen, Olaf; Schneebeli, Martin; MacFerrin, Michael; Stevens, C. Max; Vandecrux, Baptiste; Steffen, Konrad

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-385-2020

Articles | Volume 14, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-385-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-385-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 1

Research article

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31 Jan 2020

Research article |

| 31 Jan 2020

Relating regional and point measurements of accumulation in southwest Greenland

Achim Heilig, Olaf Eisen, Martin Schneebeli, Michael MacFerrin, C. Max Stevens, Baptiste Vandecrux, and Konrad Steffen

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

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RC1: 'Review of Spatial and temporal variability of snow accumulation for the South-Western Greenland Ice Sheet', Lynn Montgomery, 16 Oct 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to referee #1 Lynn Montgomery', Achim Heilig, 29 Nov 2019
RC2: 'Solid research in need of a better presentation', Anonymous Referee #2, 30 Oct 2019
- AC2: 'Reply to referee #2', Achim Heilig, 29 Nov 2019
EC1: 'Editor comment', Joseph MacGregor, 10 Nov 2019

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (08 Dec 2019) by Joseph MacGregor

AR by Achim Heilig on behalf of the Authors (09 Dec 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (06 Jan 2020) by Joseph MacGregor

Short summary

We investigate the spatial representativeness of point observations of snow accumulation in SW Greenland. Such analyses have rarely been conducted but are necessary to link regional-scale observations from, e.g., remote-sensing data to firn cores and snow pits. The presented data reveal a low regional variability in density but snow depth can vary significantly. It is necessary to combine pits with spatial snow depth data to increase the regional representativeness of accumulation observations.