Brief Communication: Upper-air relaxation in RACMO2 significantly improves modelled interannual surface mass balance variability in Antarctica

被引：35

作者：

van de Berg, Willem Jan ^{[1
]}

Medley, Brooke ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Utrecht, IMAU, Utrecht, Netherlands

[2] NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD USA

来源：

CRYOSPHERE | 2016年 / 10卷 / 01期

关键词：

ATMOSPHERIC CLIMATE MODEL; SNOW ACCUMULATION; WEST ANTARCTICA;

D O I：

10.5194/tc-10-459-2016

中图分类号：

P9 [自然地理学];

学科分类号：

0705 ; 070501 ;

摘要：

The Regional Atmospheric Climate Model (RACMO2) has been a powerful tool for improving surface mass balance (SMB) estimates from GCMs or reanalyses. However, new yearly SMB observations for West Antarctica show that the modelled interannual variability in SMB is poorly simulated by RACMO2, in contrast to ERA-Interim, which resolves this variability well. In an attempt to remedy RACMO2 performance, we included additional upper-air relaxation (UAR) in RACMO2. With UAR, the correlation to observations is similar for RACMO2 and ERA-Interim. The spatial SMB patterns and ice-sheet-integrated SMB modelled using UAR remain very similar to the estimates of RACMO2 without UAR. We only observe an upstream smoothing of precipitation in regions with very steep topography like the Antarctic Peninsula. We conclude that UAR is a useful improvement for regional climate model simulations, although results in regions with steep topography should be treated with care.

引用

页码：459 / 463

页数：5

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