Modelling the impacts of historical and future extreme precipitation days on seasonal surface mass balance in the Eastern Canadian Arctic and Greenland
Nicole A. Loeb,Alex Crawford,Brice Noël,and Julienne Stroeve
Department of Environment & Geography and Centre for Earth Observation Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom
National Snow and Ice Data Center, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
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We examine how extreme precipitation days affect the seasonal mass balance (SMB) of land ice in Greenland and the Eastern Canadian Arctic in historical and future simulations. Past extreme precipitation led to higher SMB with snowfall. Future extreme precipitation may lead to the loss of ice mass as more falls as rain rather than snow in some regions, such as southwestern Greenland. Across the region, extreme precipitation becomes more important to seasonal SMB in the future, warmer climate.
We examine how extreme precipitation days affect the seasonal mass balance (SMB) of land ice in...