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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-789-2023
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Research article
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16 Feb 2023
Research article |
| 16 Feb 2023
| 16 Feb 2023
Evaluating Greenland surface-mass-balance and firn-densification data using ICESat-2 altimetry
Polar Science
Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98122, USA
Brooke Medley
Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Xavier Fettweis
Spheres research unit, Geography, University of Liège, Liège,
Belgium
Tyler Sutterley
Polar Science
Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98122, USA
Patrick Alexander
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY
10964, USA
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY 10025, USA
David Porter
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY
10964, USA
Marco Tedesco
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY
10964, USA
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY 10025, USA
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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.
We use repeated satellite measurements of the height of the Greenland ice sheet to learn about...
