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Firn on ice sheets
Correction to: Nature Reviews Earth & Environment https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-023-00507-9, published online 23 January 2024.
In the version of the article initially published, in Fig. 5, under “Radar altimeter”, “O(16–160 m)” previously read “O(16–160 km)”. Thi
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Most of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are covered with firn — the transitional material between snow and glacial ice. Firn is vital for understanding ice-sheet mass balance and hydrology, and palaeoclimate. In this Review, we synthesize knowledge of firn, including it ...
Ice losses from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have accelerated since the 1990s, accounting for a significant increase in the global mean sea level. Here, we present a new 29-year record of ice sheet mass balance from 1992 to 2020 from the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter- ...
GrSMBMIP
Intercomparison of the modelled 1980-2012 surface mass balance over the Greenland Ice Sheet
Observations and models agree that the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) surface mass balance (SMB) has decreased since the end of the 1990s due to an increase in meltwater runoff and that this trend will accelerate in the future. However, large uncertainties remain, partly due to di ...
Modelling the climate and surface mass balance of polar ice sheets using RACMO2 - Part 2
Antarctica (1979-2016)
We evaluate modelled Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) near-surface climate, surface mass balance (SMB) and surface energy balance (SEB) from the updated polar version of the regional atmospheric climate model, RACMO2 (1979-2016). The updated model, referred to as RACMO2.3p2, incorpor ...