The treatment of meltwater retention in mass-balance parameterisations of the Greenland ice sheet
Retention of melt-water runoff by percolation and/ or refreezing in the snowpack cannot be neglected when studying the surface mass balance of the Greenlandice sheet. In this paper, we make a detailed comparison of several treatments proposed in the literature to account for this process in large-sc...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:1551 2023-09-05T13:12:04+02:00 The treatment of meltwater retention in mass-balance parameterisations of the Greenland ice sheet Janssens, I. Huybrechts, Philippe 2000 application/pdf https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/1551/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/1551/1/Jns9999a.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.12141 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.12141.d001 unknown https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/1551/1/Jns9999a.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.12141.d001 Janssens, I. and Huybrechts, P. (2000) The treatment of meltwater retention in mass-balance parameterisations of the Greenland ice sheet , Annals of Glaciology, 31 , pp. 133-140 . hdl:10013/epic.12141 EPIC3Annals of Glaciology, 31, pp. 133-140 Article isiRev 2000 ftawi 2023-08-22T19:42:44Z Retention of melt-water runoff by percolation and/ or refreezing in the snowpack cannot be neglected when studying the surface mass balance of the Greenlandice sheet. In this paper, we make a detailed comparison of several treatments proposed in the literature to account for this process in large-scale mass-balanceparameterizations. The melt on the Greenland ice sheet is calculated with a revised degree-day model using updated datasets of surface elevation and precipitationrate on a 5 km grid. Crucial model parameters are recalibrated by comparing mass-balance characteristics with available observations on a regional basis. Wediscuss the role of meltwater retention in the light of the overall mass-balance of the Greenland ice sheet and its sensitivity to climatic change, and displaypatterns of effective retention fractions for the various methods. As a main conclusion, it appears that overall results are quite similar for the various models, butthat meltwater retention has a large spatial variation not described by the simple treatments. Using the most comprehensive retention model, the sensitivity of therunoff is found to be +0.35 mm/ deg C of sea-level change per year. We also present a new map of the different zones (facies) that characterize the accumulationarea of the Greenland ice sheet, that is useful for interpreting field data and calibrating satellite observations. Article in Journal/Newspaper Annals of Glaciology Greenland Ice Sheet Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) Greenland |
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Retention of melt-water runoff by percolation and/ or refreezing in the snowpack cannot be neglected when studying the surface mass balance of the Greenlandice sheet. In this paper, we make a detailed comparison of several treatments proposed in the literature to account for this process in large-scale mass-balanceparameterizations. The melt on the Greenland ice sheet is calculated with a revised degree-day model using updated datasets of surface elevation and precipitationrate on a 5 km grid. Crucial model parameters are recalibrated by comparing mass-balance characteristics with available observations on a regional basis. Wediscuss the role of meltwater retention in the light of the overall mass-balance of the Greenland ice sheet and its sensitivity to climatic change, and displaypatterns of effective retention fractions for the various methods. As a main conclusion, it appears that overall results are quite similar for the various models, butthat meltwater retention has a large spatial variation not described by the simple treatments. Using the most comprehensive retention model, the sensitivity of therunoff is found to be +0.35 mm/ deg C of sea-level change per year. We also present a new map of the different zones (facies) that characterize the accumulationarea of the Greenland ice sheet, that is useful for interpreting field data and calibrating satellite observations. |
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The treatment of meltwater retention in mass-balance parameterisations of the Greenland ice sheet |
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The treatment of meltwater retention in mass-balance parameterisations of the Greenland ice sheet |
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The treatment of meltwater retention in mass-balance parameterisations of the Greenland ice sheet |
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The treatment of meltwater retention in mass-balance parameterisations of the Greenland ice sheet |
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treatment of meltwater retention in mass-balance parameterisations of the greenland ice sheet |
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https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/1551/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/1551/1/Jns9999a.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.12141 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.12141.d001 |
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https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/1551/1/Jns9999a.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.12141.d001 Janssens, I. and Huybrechts, P. (2000) The treatment of meltwater retention in mass-balance parameterisations of the Greenland ice sheet , Annals of Glaciology, 31 , pp. 133-140 . hdl:10013/epic.12141 |
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