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<!--!introduction!--> Glaciers in West Antarctica are accelerating extremely rapidly and discharging enormous quantities of ice into the ocean, adding to global sea level. However, while ice loss factors in this region are important to consider, the other side of the mass balance equation – ac...
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ftdatacite:10.57757/iugg23-0702 2023-06-11T04:07:03+02:00 Characteristics of extreme accumulation events in West Antarctica ... Gilbert, Ella Orr, Andrew Pishniak, Denys Kristiina, Verro van de Berg, Willem Jan Mottram, Ruth 2023 https://dx.doi.org/10.57757/iugg23-0702 https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5016786 unknown GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 ConferencePaper Oral Article 2023 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.57757/iugg23-0702 2023-06-01T11:08:49Z <!--!introduction!--> Glaciers in West Antarctica are accelerating extremely rapidly and discharging enormous quantities of ice into the ocean, adding to global sea level. However, while ice loss factors in this region are important to consider, the other side of the mass balance equation – accumulation - also has a strong bearing on overall ice mass. In this study, we examine extreme accumulation events over the West Antarctic region focusing on the Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers. Several regional climate models (MetUM, HCLIM and Polar-WRF) are used to dynamically downscale ERA5 reanalysis to 12 km, 3 km and 1 km resolution and we compare against AMIGOS snow accumulation data to validate and add value to the model simulations. In this work we will explore the characteristics of extreme precipitation events and evaluate how enhanced resolution impacts the quality of simulations. ... : The 28th IUGG General Assembly (IUGG2023) (Berlin 2023) ... Conference Object Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Pine Island West Antarctica DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Antarctic West Antarctica |
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<!--!introduction!--> Glaciers in West Antarctica are accelerating extremely rapidly and discharging enormous quantities of ice into the ocean, adding to global sea level. However, while ice loss factors in this region are important to consider, the other side of the mass balance equation – accumulation - also has a strong bearing on overall ice mass. In this study, we examine extreme accumulation events over the West Antarctic region focusing on the Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers. Several regional climate models (MetUM, HCLIM and Polar-WRF) are used to dynamically downscale ERA5 reanalysis to 12 km, 3 km and 1 km resolution and we compare against AMIGOS snow accumulation data to validate and add value to the model simulations. In this work we will explore the characteristics of extreme precipitation events and evaluate how enhanced resolution impacts the quality of simulations. ... : The 28th IUGG General Assembly (IUGG2023) (Berlin 2023) ... |
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