Stable climate and surface mass balance in Svalbard over 1979&ndash;2013 despite the Arctic warming

Lang, C.; Fettweis, X.; Erpicum, M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-83-2015

Articles | Volume 9, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-83-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-83-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 1

Research article

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08 Jan 2015

Research article |

| 08 Jan 2015

Stable climate and surface mass balance in Svalbard over 1979–2013 despite the Arctic warming

C. Lang, X. Fettweis, and M. Erpicum

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC C1819: 'Review', Jan Lenaerts, 18 Sep 2014
- AC C1912: 'Response to reviewer', Charlotte Lang, 26 Sep 2014
SC C1827: 'References', Cameron Rye, 18 Sep 2014
- AC C1913: 'Response to comment', Charlotte Lang, 26 Sep 2014
RC C1867: 'Interactive comment on “Stable climate and surface mass balance in Svalbard over 1979–2013 despite the Arctic warming” by C. Lang et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 Sep 2014
- AC C1918: 'Response to reviewer', Charlotte Lang, 01 Oct 2014
SC C1924: 'Svalbard Glacier Mass Balance Reconstruction', Mauri Pelto, 02 Oct 2014
- AC C2074: 'Response to comments', Charlotte Lang, 14 Oct 2014

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Charlotte Lang on behalf of the Authors (11 Nov 2014) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (12 Nov 2014) by Jon Ove Hagen

AR by Charlotte Lang on behalf of the Authors (13 Nov 2014) Manuscript

Short summary

We have modelled the surface mass balance (SMB) of Svalbard with the model MAR over 1979--2013. The mean SMB is slightly negative and the Svalbard glaciers are losing mass through surface processes (mainly precipitation and runoff), but there has been no acceleration of the surface melt, contrary to Greenland where melt records have been broken since 2006. We attributed it to a change in atmospheric circulation, resulting in northerly cold flows over Svalbard damping Arctic warming.