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| DOI | 10.1029/2019JD031411 |
| Evaluation of CloudSat's Cloud-Profiling Radar for Mapping Snowfall Rates Across the Greenland Ice Sheet | |
| Ryan J.C.; Smith L.C.; Wu M.; Cooley S.W.; Miège C.; Montgomery L.N.; Koenig L.S.; Fettweis X.; Noel B.P.Y.; van den Broeke M.R. | |
| 发表日期 | 2020 |
| ISSN | 2169897X |
| 卷号 | 125期号:4 |
| 英文摘要 | The Greenland Ice Sheet is now the single largest cryospheric contributor to global sea-level rise yet uncertainty remains about its future contribution due to complex interactions between increasing snowfall and surface melt. Reducing uncertainty in future snowfall predictions requires sophisticated, physically based climate models evaluated with present-day observations. The accuracy of modeled snowfall rates, however, has yet to be systematically assessed because observations are sparse. Here, we produce high spatial resolution (15 km) snowfall climatologies (2006–2016) derived from CloudSat's 2C-SNOW-PROFILE product to evaluate climate model simulations of snowfall across the Greenland Ice Sheet. In comparison to accumulation datasets acquired from ice cores and airborne accumulation radar, we find that our CloudSat climatologies capture broad spatial patterns of snowfall in both the accumulation and ablation zones. By comparing our CloudSat snowfall climatologies with the Regional Atmospheric Climate Model Version 2.3p2 (RACMO2.3p2), Modèle Atmosphérique Régional 3.9 (MAR3.9), ERA5, and Community Earth System Model version 1 (CESM1), we demonstrate that climate models likely overestimate snowfall rates at the margins of the ice sheet, particularly in South, Southeast, and Northwest Greenland during autumn and winter. Despite this overestimation, there are few areas of the ice sheet where the models and CloudSat substantially disagree about the spatial pattern and seasonality of snowfall rates. We conclude that a combination of CloudSat snowfall observations and the latest generation of climate models has the potential to improve understanding of how snowfall rates respond to increasing air temperatures, thereby constraining one of the largest sources of uncertainty in Greenland's future contribution to global sea levels. © 2020. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. |
| 英文关键词 | CloudSat; Greenland Ice Sheet; remote sensing; snowfall; surface mass balance |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 来源期刊 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/186169 |
| 作者单位 | Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States; Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States; Department of Geography Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, United States; Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States; National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States; Laboratory of Climatology, Department of Geography, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ryan J.C.,Smith L.C.,Wu M.,et al. Evaluation of CloudSat's Cloud-Profiling Radar for Mapping Snowfall Rates Across the Greenland Ice Sheet[J],2020,125(4). |
| APA | Ryan J.C..,Smith L.C..,Wu M..,Cooley S.W..,Miège C..,...&van den Broeke M.R..(2020).Evaluation of CloudSat's Cloud-Profiling Radar for Mapping Snowfall Rates Across the Greenland Ice Sheet.Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres,125(4). |
| MLA | Ryan J.C.,et al."Evaluation of CloudSat's Cloud-Profiling Radar for Mapping Snowfall Rates Across the Greenland Ice Sheet".Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 125.4(2020). |
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