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 …

UAV photogrammetry and structure from motion to assess calving dynamics at Store Glacier, a large outlet draining the Greenland ice sheet

JC Ryan, AL Hubbard, JE Box, J Todd… - The …, 2015 - tc.copernicus.org
This study presents the application of a cost-effective, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to
investigate calving dynamics at a major marine-terminating outlet glacier draining the …

Trajectory of the Arctic as an integrated system

LD Hinzman, CJ Deal, AD McGuire… - Ecological …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Although much remains to be learned about the Arctic and its component processes, many
of the most urgent scientific, engineering, and social questions can only be approached …

The first complete inventory of the local glaciers and ice caps on Greenland

P Rastner, T Bolch, N Mölg, H Machguth… - The …, 2012 - tc.copernicus.org
Glacier inventories provide essential baseline information for the determination of water
resources, glacier-specific changes in area and volume, climate change impacts as well as …

Surface mass balance model intercomparison for the Greenland ice sheet

CL Vernon, JL Bamber, JE Box… - The …, 2013 - tc.copernicus.org
A number of high resolution reconstructions of the surface mass balance (SMB) of the
Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) have been produced using global re-analyses data extending …

[HTML][HTML] Greenland ice sheet mass balance reconstruction. Part II: Surface mass balance (1840–2010)

JE Box - Journal of Climate, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
Meteorological station records, ice cores, and regional climate model output are combined
to develop a continuous 171-yr (1840–2010) reconstruction of Greenland ice sheet climatic …

[HTML][HTML] Greenland ice sheet mass balance reconstruction. Part III: Marine ice loss and total mass balance (1840–2010)

JE Box, W Colgan - Journal of Climate, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
Greenland ice sheet mass loss to the marine environment occurs by some combination of
iceberg calving and underwater melting (referred to here as marine ice loss, LM). This study …

[HTML][HTML] NHM–SMAP: spatially and temporally high-resolution nonhydrostatic atmospheric model coupled with detailed snow process model for Greenland Ice Sheet

M Niwano, T Aoki, A Hashimoto, S Matoba… - The …, 2018 - tc.copernicus.org
To improve surface mass balance (SMB) estimates for the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS), we
developed a 5 km resolution regional climate model combining the Japan Meteorological …

Importance of mountain glaciers as a source of dissolved organic carbon

X Li, Y Ding, J Xu, X He, T Han, S Kang… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Ice sheets and glaciers have been shown to deliver large amounts of labile dissolved
organic carbon (DOC) to downstream aquatic ecosystems, but recent studies may …

The role of an interactive Greenland ice sheet in the coupled climate-ice sheet model EC-Earth-PISM

MS Madsen, S Yang, G Aðalgeirsdóttir, SH Svendsen… - Climate Dynamics, 2022 - Springer
Ice sheet processes are often simplified in global climate models as changes in ice sheets
have been assumed to occur over long time scales compared to ocean and atmospheric …