A comparison of Antarctic ice sheet surface mass balance from atmospheric climate models and in situ observations

• Published in: Journal of Climate
• Main Authors: Wang, Yetang, Ding, Minghu, van Wessem, J. M., Schlosser, E., Altnau, S., van den Broeke, Michiel R., Lenaerts, Jan T. M., Thomas, Elizabeth R., Isaksson, Elisabeth, Wang, Jianhui, Sun, Weijun
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Meteorological Society 2016
• Subjects: Antarctic; Merra; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/514307/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/514307/1/Wang%20-%20A%20Comparison%20of%20Antarctic%20Ice%20Sheet%20Surface%20Mass%20Balance%20from%20Atmospheric%20Climate%20Models%20and%20In%20Situ%20Observations.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0642.1

In this study, 3265 multiyear averaged in situ observations and 29 observational records at annual time scale are used to examine the performance of recent reanalysis and regional atmospheric climate model products [ERA-Interim, JRA-55, MERRA, the Polar version of MM5 (PMM5), RACMO2.1, and RACMO2.3]...