Articles | Volume 14, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-957-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-957-2020
Brief communication
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12 Mar 2020
Brief communication |  | 12 Mar 2020

Brief communication: Evaluation of the near-surface climate in ERA5 over the Greenland Ice Sheet

Alison Delhasse, Christoph Kittel, Charles Amory, Stefan Hofer, Dirk van As, Robert S. Fausto, and Xavier Fettweis

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The ERA5 reanalysis of the ECMWF replaced the ERA-Interim in August 2019 and has never been evaluated over Greenland. The aim was to evaluate the performance of ERA5 to simulate the near-surface climate of the Greenland Ice sheet (GrIS) against ERA-Interim and regional climate models with the help of in situ observations from the PROMICE dataset. We also highlighted that polar regional climate models are still a useful tool to study the GrIS climate compared to ERA5.