Future ice-sheet surface mass balance and melting in the Amundsen region, West Antarctica

• Main Authors: Donat-Magnin, Marion, Jourdain, Nicolas C., Kittel, Christoph, Agosta, Cécile, Amory, Charles, Gallée, Hubert, Krinner, Gerhard, Chekki, Mondher
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Antarctic; Getz; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Pine Island; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2020-113; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2020-113/

We present projections of West-Antarctic surface mass balance (SMB) and surface melting to 2080–2100, under the RCP8.5 scenario and based on a regional model at 10 km resolution. Our projections are built by adding a CMIP5 (5 th Coupled Model Intercomparison Project) multi-model-mean seasonal climat...