Data set: Monthly averaged RACMO2.3p2 variables; Antarctic Peninsula ...

• Main Authors: Van Wessem, Jan Melchior, Van De Berg, Willem Jan, Van Den Broeke, Michiel Roland
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: RACMO2.3p2; Antarctic Peninsula; Climate Model; Regional Climate Model; Climate; Antarctic; Greenland; Kuipers; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7961733; https://zenodo.org/record/7961733

This is a data set of monthly averaged variables simulated by the hydrostatic regional atmospheric climate model RACMO2.3p2 over the Antarctic Peninsula. At the lateral and ocean boundaries the model is forced by ERA-Interim reanalysis data every 6 hours from January 1979 to August 2019. After August 2019, the model is forced by ERA5 reanalyses every 3 hours, with an overlap from 2016, to December 2022. The model is run at a horizontal resolution of 5.5 km and 40 vertical levels for the Antarctic Peninsula domain, which, after 2018, constitutes an update of the simulation forced from 1979-2018 by ERA-Interim reported in van Wessem et al., 2018. Upper air relaxation of wind, humidity and temperature is not active for this domain. This version of the model is specifically applied to the polar regions by interactive coupling to a multilayer snow model that calculates melt, refreezing, percolation and runoff of meltwater (Ettema et al., 2010). In addition, snow albedo is calculated through a prognostic scheme ... : {"references": ["Van Wessem, J. M., van de Berg, W. J., No\u00ebl, B. P. Y., van Meijgaard, E., Birnbaum, G., Jakobs, C. L., et al. (2018). Modelling the climate and surface mass balance of polar ice sheets using RACMO2, part 2: Antarctica (1979\u20132016). The Cryosphere, 2018, 1\u201335. doi:10.5194/tc-2017-202. issn:1994-0440.", "Ettema, J., Van den Broeke, M. R., Van Meijgaard, E., Van de Berg, W. J., Box, J. E., and Steffen, K. (2010). Climate of the Greenland ice sheet using a high-resolution climate model \u2013 Part 1: Evaluation. The Cryosphere, 4(4), 529\u2013544. doi:10.5194/tc-4-511-2010. issn:1994-0424.", "Lenaerts, J. T. M., van den Broeke, M. R., D\u00e9ry, S. J., K\u00f6nig-Langlo, G., Ettema, J., Munneke, P. K., and Kuipers Munneke, P. (2010). Modelling snowdrift sublimation on an Antarctic ice shelf. The Cryosphere, 4(2), 179\u2013190. doi:10.5194/tc-4-179-2010. issn:1994-0424.", "Rignot, E., Jacobs, S., Mouginot, J., and Scheuchl, B. (2013). Ice-Shelf Melting Around Antarctica. Science, ...