Articles | Volume 17, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-789-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-789-2023
Research article
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16 Feb 2023
Research article |  | 16 Feb 2023

Evaluating Greenland surface-mass-balance and firn-densification data using ICESat-2 altimetry

Benjamin E. Smith, Brooke Medley, Xavier Fettweis, Tyler Sutterley, Patrick Alexander, David Porter, and Marco Tedesco

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Interactive discussion

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on tc-2022-44', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 May 2022
    • AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Benjamin Smith, 07 Sep 2022
  • RC2: 'Review of Smith et al. (tc-2022-44)', Anonymous Referee #2, 02 Jun 2022
    • AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Benjamin Smith, 07 Sep 2022
  • RC3: 'Comment on tc-2022-44', Anonymous Referee #3, 13 Jun 2022
    • AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Benjamin Smith, 07 Sep 2022

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (21 Sep 2022) by Bert Wouters
AR by Benjamin Smith on behalf of the Authors (05 Oct 2022)  Author's response    Author's tracked changes    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (24 Oct 2022) by Bert Wouters
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (01 Nov 2022)
RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (08 Nov 2022)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (29 Nov 2022) by Bert Wouters
AR by Benjamin Smith on behalf of the Authors (03 Jan 2023)  Author's response    Author's tracked changes    Manuscript
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (16 Jan 2023) by Bert Wouters
AR by Benjamin Smith on behalf of the Authors (19 Jan 2023)  Author's response    Manuscript
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Short summary
We use repeated satellite measurements of the height of the Greenland ice sheet to learn about how three computational models of snowfall, melt, and snow compaction represent actual changes in the ice sheet. We find that the models do a good job of estimating how the parts of the ice sheet near the coast have changed but that two of the models have trouble representing surface melt for the highest part of the ice sheet. This work provides suggestions for how to better model snowmelt.