Long-term surface energy balance of the western Greenland Ice Sheet and the role of large-scale circulation variability

Huai, Baojuan; van den Broeke, Michiel R.; Reijmer, Carleen H.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4181-2020

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25 Nov 2020

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| 25 Nov 2020

Long-term surface energy balance of the western Greenland Ice Sheet and the role of large-scale circulation variability

Baojuan Huai, Michiel R. van den Broeke, and Carleen H. Reijmer

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RC1: 'Review comment for tc-2020-138', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Jul 2020
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RC2: 'Comment', Federico Covi, 07 Jul 2020
- AC2: 'reply to the second reviewer', Huai baojuan, 01 Aug 2020

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (13 Aug 2020) by Valentina Radic

AR by Huai baojuan on behalf of the Authors (14 Aug 2020) Author's response

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ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (04 Oct 2020) by Valentina Radic

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ED: Publish as is (11 Oct 2020) by Valentina Radic

AR by Huai baojuan on behalf of the Authors (20 Oct 2020)

Short summary

This study presents the surface energy balance (SEB) of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) using a SEB model forced with observations from automatic weather stations (AWSs). We correlate ERA5 with AWSs to show a signiﬁcant positive correlation of GrIS summer surface temperature and melt with the Greenland Blocking Index and weaker and opposite correlations with the North Atlantic Oscillation. This analysis may help explain melting patterns in the GrIS with respect to circulation anomalies.