Strategies for regional modeling of surface mass balance at the Monte Sarmiento Massif, Tierra del Fuego

Temme, Franziska; Farías-Barahona, David; Seehaus, Thorsten; Jaña, Ricardo; Arigony-Neto, Jorge; Gonzalez, Inti; Arndt, Anselm; Sauter, Tobias; Schneider, Christoph; Fürst, Johannes J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-2343-2023

Articles | Volume 17, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-2343-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-2343-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 6

Research article

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12 Jun 2023

Research article |

| 12 Jun 2023

Strategies for regional modeling of surface mass balance at the Monte Sarmiento Massif, Tierra del Fuego

Franziska Temme, David Farías-Barahona, Thorsten Seehaus, Ricardo Jaña, Jorge Arigony-Neto, Inti Gonzalez, Anselm Arndt, Tobias Sauter, Christoph Schneider, and Johannes J. Fürst

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-2343-2023-supplement

Data sets

Ablation Stake Measurements at Schiaparelli Glacier, Cordillera Darwin, Chile, 2013-2019 Ricardo Jaña, Inti Gonzalez, Jorge Arigony-Neto, Eñaut Izaguirre, Christoph Schneider, Stephanie S. Weidemann, and Franziska Temme https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.958668

Meteorological Observations at Schiaparelli Glacier Automatic Weather Station (AWSrock), Cordillera Darwin, Chile, 2015-2020 Christoph Schneider, Lukas Langhamer, Stephanie S. Weidemann, Franziska Temme https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.956569

Meteorological Observations at Schiaparelli Glacier Automatic Weather Station (AWSglacier), Cordillera Darwin, Chile, 2013-2019 Jorge Arigony-Neto, Ricardo Jaña, Inti Gonzalez, Christoph Schneider, and Franziska Temme https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.958694

Ablation Measurements at Schiaparelli Glacier, Cordillera Darwin, Chile, with an automatic ablation sensor, 2016-2017 Guilherme Netto, Jorge Arigony-Neto, Ricardo Jaña, Inti Gonzalez, Christoph Schneider, and Franziska Temme https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.958623

Surface mass balance of the Monte Sarmiento Massif (2000-2022), Tierra del Fuego, Chile Franziska Temme, David Farías-Barahona, Thorsten Seehaus, Ricardo Jaña, Jorge Arigony-Neto, Inti Gonzalez, Anselm Arndt, Tobias Sauter, Christoph Schneider, and Johannes J. Fürst https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7798666

Meteorological Observations at Schiaparelli Glacier Automatic Weather Station (AWSglacier), Cordillera Darwin, Chile Jorge Arigony-Neto, Ricardo Jaña, Gonzalez, Inti, Christoph Schneider, and Franziska Temme https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.958694

Ablation Stake Measurements at Schiaparelli Glacier, Cordillera Darwin, Chile, 2013-2019 Ricardo Jaña, Inti Gonzalez, Jorge Arigony-Neto, Eñaut Izaguirre, Christoph Schneider, Stephanie S. Weidemann, and Franziska Temme https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.958668

Ablation Measurements at Schiaparelli Glacier, Cordillera Darwin, Chile, with an automatic ablation sensor, 2016-2017 Guilherme Netto, Jorge Arigony-Neto, Ricardo Jaña, On Gonzalez, Christoph Schneider, and Franziska Temme https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.958623

ERA5 hourly data on single levels from 1940 to present H. Hersbach, B. Bell, P. Berrisford, G. Biavati, A. Horányi, J. Muñoz Sabater, J. Nicolas, C. Peubey, R. Radu, I. Rozum, D. Schepers, A. Simmons, C. Soci, D. Dee and J. N. Thépaut https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.adbb2d47

ERA5 hourly data on pressure levels from 1940 to present H. Hersbach, B. Bell, P. Berrisford, G. Biavati, A. Horányi, J. Muñoz Sabater, J. Nicolas, C. Peubey, R. Radu, I. Rozum, D. Schepers, A. Simmons, C. Soci, D. Dee and J. N. Thépaut https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.bd0915c6

Model code and software

COSIPY v1.4 Anselm Arndt, Tobias Sauter, and Björn Saß https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4439551

positive-deg-day-model v1.0 (v1.0) Franziska Temme https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8009967

simplified-energy-balance-model v1.0 (v1.0) Franziska Temme https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8009978

Short summary

Calibration of surface mass balance (SMB) models on regional scales is challenging. We investigate different calibration strategies with the goal of achieving realistic simulations of the SMB in the Monte Sarmiento Massif, Tierra del Fuego. Our results show that the use of regional observations from satellite data can improve the model performance. Furthermore, we compare four melt models of different complexity to understand the benefit of increasing the processes considered in the model.