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Research article
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14 Jul 2017
Research article |
| 14 Jul 2017
The importance of accurate glacier albedo for estimates of surface mass balance on Vatnajökull: evaluating the surface energy budget in a regional climate model with automatic weather station observations
University of Iceland, Institute of Earth Sciences, Reykjavik, Iceland
Guðfinna Aðalgeirsdóttir
University of Iceland, Institute of Earth Sciences, Reykjavik, Iceland
Sverrir Guðmundsson
University of Iceland, Institute of Earth Sciences, Reykjavik, Iceland
Keilir Institute of Technology, Reykjanesbær, Iceland
Peter L. Langen
Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Finnur Pálsson
University of Iceland, Institute of Earth Sciences, Reykjavik, Iceland
Ruth Mottram
Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Simon Gascoin
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, Université de Toulouse, CNES/CNRS/IRD/UPS, Toulouse, France
Helgi Björnsson
University of Iceland, Institute of Earth Sciences, Reykjavik, Iceland
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Short summary
The regional climate model HIRHAM5 is evaluated over Vatnajökull, Iceland, using automatic weather stations and mass balance observations from 1995 to 2014. From this we asses whether the model can be used to reconstruct the mass balance of the glacier. We find that the simulated energy balance is underestimated overall, but it has been improved by using a new albedo scheme. The specific mass balance is reconstructed back to 1980, thus expanding on the observational records of the mass balance.
The regional climate model HIRHAM5 is evaluated over Vatnajökull, Iceland, using automatic...
