Articles | Volume 13, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1547-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1547-2019
Research article
 | 
03 Jun 2019
Research article |  | 03 Jun 2019

Regional grid refinement in an Earth system model: impacts on the simulated Greenland surface mass balance

Leonardus van Kampenhout, Alan M. Rhoades, Adam R. Herrington, Colin M. Zarzycki, Jan T. M. Lenaerts, William J. Sacks, and Michiel R. van den Broeke

Download

Interactive discussion

Status: closed
Status: closed
AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment
Printer-friendly Version - Printer-friendly version Supplement - Supplement

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
AR by Leo van Kampenhout on behalf of the Authors (04 Mar 2019)  Manuscript 
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (05 Mar 2019) by Xavier Fettweis
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (19 Mar 2019)
RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (15 Apr 2019)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (23 Apr 2019) by Xavier Fettweis
AR by Leo van Kampenhout on behalf of the Authors (08 May 2019)  Author's response   Manuscript 
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (14 May 2019) by Xavier Fettweis
AR by Leo van Kampenhout on behalf of the Authors (15 May 2019)  Author's response   Manuscript 
Download
Short summary
A new tool is evaluated in which the climate and surface mass balance (SMB) of the Greenland ice sheet are resolved at 55 and 28 km resolution, while the rest of the globe is modelled at ~110 km. The local refinement of resolution leads to improved accumulation (SMB > 0) compared to observations; however ablation (SMB < 0) is deteriorated in some regions. This is attributed to changes in cloud cover and a reduced effectiveness of a model-specific vertical downscaling technique.