A New 200-Year Spatial Reconstruction of West Antarctic Surface Mass Balance
High-spatial resolution surface mass balance (SMB) over the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) spanning 1800–2010 is reconstructed by means of ice core records combined with the outputs of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts “Interim” reanalysis (ERA-Interim) and the latest polar ver...
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ftunivutrecht:oai:dspace.library.uu.nl:1874/385006 2023-11-12T04:00:55+01:00 A New 200-Year Spatial Reconstruction of West Antarctic Surface Mass Balance Wang, Yetang Huai, Baojuan Thomas, Elizabeth R. van den Broeke, Michiel R. van Wessem, J. Melchior Schlosser, Elisabeth Sub Dynamics Meteorology Marine and Atmospheric Research 2019-05-27 application/pdf https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/385006 en eng 2169-897X https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/385006 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess Taverne Geophysics Forestry Oceanography Aquatic Science Ecology Water Science and Technology Soil Science Geochemistry and Petrology Earth-Surface Processes Atmospheric Science Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Space and Planetary Science Palaeontology Article 2019 ftunivutrecht 2023-11-01T23:21:18Z High-spatial resolution surface mass balance (SMB) over the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) spanning 1800–2010 is reconstructed by means of ice core records combined with the outputs of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts “Interim” reanalysis (ERA-Interim) and the latest polar version of the Regional Atmospheric Climate Model (RACMO2.3p2). The reconstruction reveals a significant negative trend (−1.9 ± 2.2 Gt/year·per decade) in the SMB over the entire WAIS during the nineteenth century, but a statistically significant positive trend of 5.4 ± 2.9 Gt/year·per decade between 1900 and 2010, in contrast to insignificant WAIS SMB changes during the twentieth century reported earlier. At regional scales, the Antarctic Peninsula and western WAIS show opposite SMB trends, with different signs in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The annual resolution reconstruction allows us to examine the relationships between SMB and large-scale atmospheric oscillations. Although SMB over the Antarctic Peninsula and western WAIS correlates significantly with the Southern Annular Mode due to the influence of the Amundsen Sea Low, and El Niño/Southern Oscillation during 1800–2010, the significant correlations are temporally unstable, associated with the phase of Southern Annular Mode, El Niño/Southern Oscillation and the Pacific decadal oscillation. In addition, the two climate modes seem to contribute little to variability in SMB over the whole WAIS on decadal-centennial time scales. This new reconstruction also serves to identify unreliable precipitation trends in ERA-Interim and thus has potential for assessing the skill of other reanalyses or climate models to capture precipitation trends and variability. Article in Journal/Newspaper Amundsen Sea Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula ice core Ice Sheet Utrecht University Repository Amundsen Sea Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Pacific The Antarctic West Antarctic Ice Sheet |
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Taverne Geophysics Forestry Oceanography Aquatic Science Ecology Water Science and Technology Soil Science Geochemistry and Petrology Earth-Surface Processes Atmospheric Science Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Space and Planetary Science Palaeontology Wang, Yetang Huai, Baojuan Thomas, Elizabeth R. van den Broeke, Michiel R. van Wessem, J. Melchior Schlosser, Elisabeth A New 200-Year Spatial Reconstruction of West Antarctic Surface Mass Balance |
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High-spatial resolution surface mass balance (SMB) over the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) spanning 1800–2010 is reconstructed by means of ice core records combined with the outputs of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts “Interim” reanalysis (ERA-Interim) and the latest polar version of the Regional Atmospheric Climate Model (RACMO2.3p2). The reconstruction reveals a significant negative trend (−1.9 ± 2.2 Gt/year·per decade) in the SMB over the entire WAIS during the nineteenth century, but a statistically significant positive trend of 5.4 ± 2.9 Gt/year·per decade between 1900 and 2010, in contrast to insignificant WAIS SMB changes during the twentieth century reported earlier. At regional scales, the Antarctic Peninsula and western WAIS show opposite SMB trends, with different signs in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The annual resolution reconstruction allows us to examine the relationships between SMB and large-scale atmospheric oscillations. Although SMB over the Antarctic Peninsula and western WAIS correlates significantly with the Southern Annular Mode due to the influence of the Amundsen Sea Low, and El Niño/Southern Oscillation during 1800–2010, the significant correlations are temporally unstable, associated with the phase of Southern Annular Mode, El Niño/Southern Oscillation and the Pacific decadal oscillation. In addition, the two climate modes seem to contribute little to variability in SMB over the whole WAIS on decadal-centennial time scales. This new reconstruction also serves to identify unreliable precipitation trends in ERA-Interim and thus has potential for assessing the skill of other reanalyses or climate models to capture precipitation trends and variability. |
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Sub Dynamics Meteorology Marine and Atmospheric Research |
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Wang, Yetang Huai, Baojuan Thomas, Elizabeth R. van den Broeke, Michiel R. van Wessem, J. Melchior Schlosser, Elisabeth |
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Wang, Yetang Huai, Baojuan Thomas, Elizabeth R. van den Broeke, Michiel R. van Wessem, J. Melchior Schlosser, Elisabeth |
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Wang, Yetang |
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A New 200-Year Spatial Reconstruction of West Antarctic Surface Mass Balance |
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A New 200-Year Spatial Reconstruction of West Antarctic Surface Mass Balance |
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A New 200-Year Spatial Reconstruction of West Antarctic Surface Mass Balance |
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A New 200-Year Spatial Reconstruction of West Antarctic Surface Mass Balance |
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A New 200-Year Spatial Reconstruction of West Antarctic Surface Mass Balance |
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new 200-year spatial reconstruction of west antarctic surface mass balance |
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2019 |
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Amundsen Sea Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Pacific The Antarctic West Antarctic Ice Sheet |
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Amundsen Sea Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Pacific The Antarctic West Antarctic Ice Sheet |
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Amundsen Sea Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula ice core Ice Sheet |
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Amundsen Sea Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula ice core Ice Sheet |
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