Observing and modeling ice sheet surface mass balance

JTM Lenaerts, B Medley… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Surface mass balance (SMB) provides mass input to the surface of the Antarctic and
Greenland Ice Sheets and therefore comprises an important control on ice sheet mass …

Five decades of radioglaciology

DM Schroeder, RG Bingham, DD Blankenship… - Annals of …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Radar sounding is a powerful geophysical approach for characterizing the subsurface
conditions of terrestrial and planetary ice masses at local to global scales. As a result, a wide …

Reconstructions of the 1900–2015 Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance using the regional climate MAR model

X Fettweis, JE Box, C Agosta, C Amory, C Kittel… - The …, 2017 - tc.copernicus.org
With the aim of studying the recent Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) surface mass balance (SMB)
decrease relative to the last century, we have forced the regional climate MAR (Modèle …

Modelling the climate and surface mass balance of polar ice sheets using RACMO2–Part 1: Greenland (1958–2016)

B Noël, WJ van De Berg, JM Van Wessem… - The …, 2018 - tc.copernicus.org
We evaluate modelled Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) near-surface climate, surface energy
balance (SEB) and surface mass balance (SMB) from the updated regional climate model …

The scientific legacy of NASA's Operation IceBridge

JA MacGregor, LN Boisvert, B Medley, AA Petty… - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Operation IceBridge
(OIB) was a 13‐year (2009–2021) airborne mission to survey land and sea ice across the …

Greenland ice sheet surface mass loss: recent developments in observation and modeling

M van den Broeke, J Box, X Fettweis, E Hanna… - Current Climate Change …, 2017 - Springer
Surface processes currently dominate Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) mass loss. We review
recent developments in the observation and modeling of GrIS surface mass balance (SMB) …

A Lagrangian snow evolution system for sea ice applications (SnowModel‐LG): Part II—Analyses

J Stroeve, GE Liston, S Buzzard, L Zhou… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Sea ice thickness is a critical variable, both as a climate indicator and for forecasting sea ice
conditions on seasonal and longer time scales. The lack of snow depth and density …

Mass balances of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets monitored from space

IN Otosaka, M Horwath, R Mottram, S Nowicki - Surveys in Geophysics, 2023 - Springer
Satellite data have revealed that the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets are changing
rapidly due to warming air and ocean temperatures. Crucially, Earth Observations can now …

Mass balance of the ice sheets and glaciers–Progress since AR5 and challenges

E Hanna, F Pattyn, F Navarro, V Favier, H Goelzer… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent research shows increasing decadal ice mass losses from the Greenland and
Antarctic Ice Sheets and more generally from glaciers worldwide in the light of continued …

Intercomparison of snow depth retrievals over Arctic sea ice from radar data acquired by Operation IceBridge

R Kwok, NT Kurtz, L Brucker, A Ivanoff… - The …, 2017 - tc.copernicus.org
Since 2009, the ultra-wideband snow radar on Operation IceBridge (OIB; a NASA airborne
mission to survey the polar ice covers) has acquired data in annual campaigns conducted …