Articles | Volume 18, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-4831-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-4831-2024
Research article
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29 Oct 2024
Research article |  | 29 Oct 2024

How does a change in climate variability impact the Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance?

Tobias Zolles and Andreas Born

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Interactive discussion

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Review of Zolles and Born', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Mar 2022
  • RC2: 'Comment on tc-2021-379', Anonymous Referee #2, 06 May 2022

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload
ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (01 Jul 2022) by Michiel van den Broeke
AR by Tobias Zolles on behalf of the Authors (17 Nov 2023)  Author's response   Author's tracked changes   Manuscript 
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (20 Nov 2023) by Michiel van den Broeke
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (03 Dec 2023)
RR by Alexander Robinson (08 Dec 2023)
ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (16 Dec 2023) by Michiel van den Broeke
AR by Tobias Zolles on behalf of the Authors (04 Mar 2024)  Author's response   Author's tracked changes   Manuscript 
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (12 Apr 2024) by Michiel van den Broeke
RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (21 Apr 2024)
ED: Publish as is (21 Apr 2024) by Michiel van den Broeke
AR by Tobias Zolles on behalf of the Authors (30 Apr 2024)
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Short summary
The Greenland ice sheet largely depends on the climate state. The uncertainties associated with the year-to-year variability have only a marginal impact on our simulated surface mass budget; this increases our confidence in projections and reconstructions. Basing the simulations on proxies, e.g., temperature, results in overestimates of the surface mass balance, as climatologies lead to small amounts of snowfall every day. This can be reduced by including sub-monthly precipitation variability.