Observing and modeling ice sheet surface mass balance

JTM Lenaerts, B Medley… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Surface mass balance (SMB) provides mass input to the surface of the Antarctic and
Greenland Ice Sheets and therefore comprises an important control on ice sheet mass …

Intense atmospheric rivers can weaken ice shelf stability at the Antarctic Peninsula

JD Wille, V Favier, NC Jourdain, C Kittel… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
The disintegration of the ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula have spurred much
discussion on the various processes leading to their eventual dramatic collapse, but without …

Antarctic atmospheric river climatology and precipitation impacts

JD Wille, V Favier, IV Gorodetskaya… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) is sensitive to short‐term extreme meteorological events that
can leave long‐term impacts on the continent's surface mass balance (SMB). We investigate …

Diverging future surface mass balance between the Antarctic ice shelves and grounded ice sheet

C Kittel, C Amory, C Agosta, NC Jourdain… - The Cryosphere …, 2020 - tc.copernicus.org
The future surface mass balance (SMB) will influence the ice dynamics and the contribution
of the Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) to the sea-level rise. Most of recent Antarctic SMB projections …

Greater Greenland Ice Sheet contribution to global sea level rise in CMIP6

S Hofer, C Lang, C Amory, C Kittel, A Delhasse… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Future climate projections show a marked increase in Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) runoff
during the 21st century, a direct consequence of the Polar Amplification signal. Regional …

[HTML][HTML] What is the surface mass balance of Antarctica? An intercomparison of regional climate model estimates

R Mottram, N Hansen, C Kittel, JM van Wessem… - The …, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
We compare the performance of five different regional climate models (RCMs)(COSMO-CLM
2, HIRHAM5, MAR3. 10, MetUM, and RACMO2. 3p2), forced by ERA-Interim reanalysis, in …

Sea level rise from West Antarctic mass loss significantly modified by large snowfall anomalies

BJ Davison, AE Hogg, R Rigby, S Veldhuijsen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Mass loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is dominated by glaciers draining into the
Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE), yet the impact of anomalous precipitation on the mass …

Annual mass budget of Antarctic ice shelves from 1997 to 2021

BJ Davison, AE Hogg, N Gourmelen, L Jakob… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Antarctic ice shelves moderate the contribution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to global sea level
rise; however, ice shelf health remains poorly constrained. Here, we present the annual …

[HTML][HTML] Brief communication: Evaluation of the near-surface climate in ERA5 over the Greenland Ice Sheet

A Delhasse, C Kittel, C Amory, S Hofer, D Van As… - The …, 2020 - tc.copernicus.org
The ERA5 reanalysis, recently made available by the European Centre for Medium-Range
Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), is a new reanalysis product at a high resolution replacing …

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 …