Mass balance of the ice sheets and glaciers–Progress since AR5 and challenges

E Hanna, F Pattyn, F Navarro, V Favier, H Goelzer… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent research shows increasing decadal ice mass losses from the Greenland and
Antarctic Ice Sheets and more generally from glaciers worldwide in the light of continued …

Estimation of the Antarctic surface mass balance using the regional climate model MAR (1979–2015) and identification of dominant processes

C Agosta, C Amory, C Kittel, A Orsi, V Favier… - The …, 2019 - tc.copernicus.org
The Antarctic ice sheet mass balance is a major component of the sea level budget and
results from the difference of two fluxes of a similar magnitude: ice flow discharging in the …

Performance of MAR (v3. 11) in simulating the drifting-snow climate and surface mass balance of Adélie Land, East Antarctica

C Amory, C Kittel, L Le Toumelin… - Geoscientific Model …, 2020 - gmd.copernicus.org
Drifting snow, or the wind-driven transport of snow particles and their concurrent
sublimation, is a poorly documented process on the Antarctic ice sheet, inherently lacking in …

Antarctica-regional climate and surface mass budget

V Favier, G Krinner, C Amory, H Gallée… - Current Climate Change …, 2017 - Springer
We review recent literature on atmospheric, surface ocean and sea-ice observations and
modeling results in the Antarctic sector and relate the observed climatic trends with the …

Climatic information archived in ice cores: impact of intermittency and diffusion on the recorded isotopic signal in Antarctica

M Casado, T Münch, T Laepple - Climate of the Past Discussions, 2019 - cp.copernicus.org
The isotopic signal (δ 18 O and δD) imprinted in ice cores from Antarctica is not solely
generated by the temperature sensitivity of the isotopic composition of precipitation but also …

[HTML][HTML] Physics-based SNOWPACK model improves representation of near-surface Antarctic snow and firn density

E Keenan, N Wever, M Dattler, JTM Lenaerts… - The …, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
Estimates of snow and firn density are required for satellite-altimetry-based retrievals of ice
sheet mass balance that rely on volume-to-mass conversions. Therefore, biases and errors …

Intercomparison of large-eddy simulations of the Antarctic boundary layer for very stable stratification

F Couvreux, E Bazile, Q Rodier, B Maronga… - Boundary-Layer …, 2020 - Springer
In polar regions, where the boundary layer is often stably stratified, atmospheric models
produce large biases depending on the boundary-layer parametrizations and the …

[HTML][HTML] Regime transitions in near-surface temperature inversions: a conceptual model

BJH Van de Wiel, E Vignon, P Baas… - Journal of the …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Regime Transitions in Near-Surface Temperature Inversions: A Conceptual Model in: Journal of
the Atmospheric Sciences Volume 74 Issue 4 (2017) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation …

Evidence of strong flux underestimation by bulk parametrizations during drifting and blowing snow

A Sigmund, J Dujardin, F Comola, V Sharma… - Boundary-Layer …, 2022 - Springer
The influence of drifting and blowing snow on surface mass and energy exchange is difficult
to quantify due to limitations in both measurements and models, but is still potentially very …

Stable boundary‐layer regimes at Dome C, Antarctica: observation and analysis

E Vignon, BJH van de Wiel… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Investigation of meteorological measurements along a 45 m tower at Dome C on the high
East Antarctic Plateau revealed two distinct stable boundary layer (SBL) regimes at this …