Forty-year Simulations of Firn Processes over the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets

• Main Authors: Medley, Brooke, Neumann, Thomas A., Zwally, H. Jay, Smith, Benjamin E.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Antarctic; Greenland; Merra; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2020-266; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2020-266/

Conversion of altimetry-derived ice-sheet volume change to mass requires an understanding of the evolution of the combined ice and air content within the firn column. In the absence of suitable techniques to observe the changes to the firn column across the entirety of an ice sheet, the firn column...