Precipitation, sublimation, and snow drift in the Antarctic Peninsula region from a regional atmospheric model

Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres

Volumn 109, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 1-16

  van Lipzig, N P M ^a,b   King, J C ^a   Lachlan Cope, T A ^a   van den Broeke, M R ^c  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antarctic Peninsula; Precipitation; Regional atmospheric model

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SUBLIMATION; WIND FORCING;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; WEST ANTARCTICA; WORLD;

EID: 14744304199     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JD004701     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Aagaard, B. (1930), Fangst og forskning i Sydishavet, Oslo, Gyldendal Norsk Forland, vol. 1, 162 pp., Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, Oslo.
2. Bintanja, R., and C. H. Reijmer (2001), A simple parameterization for snowdrift sublimation over Antarctic snow surfaces, J. Geophys. Res., 106(D23), 31,739-31,748.
3. Box, J. E., and A. Rinke (2003), Evaluation of Greenland ice sheet surface climate in the HIRHAM regional climate model, J. Clim., 16 1302-1319.
4. Christensen, J. H., and E. Van Meijgaard (1992), On the construction of a regional atmospheric climate model, Tech. Rep. 147, 22 pp., R. Neth. Meteorol. Inst., de Bilt, Netherlands.
5. Christensen, J. H., O. B. Christensen, P. Lopez, E. Van Meijgaard, and M. Botzet (1996), The HIRHAM4 regional atmospheric climate model, DMI Sci. Rep. 96-4, 51 pp., Dan. Meteorol. Inst., Copenhagen, Denmark.
6. Colle, B. A. (2004), Sensitivity of orographic precipitation to changing ambient conditions and terrain geometries: An idealized modeling perspective, J. Atmos. Sci., 61, 588-606.
7. Colle, B. A., and C. F. Mass (1996), An observational and modeling study of the interaction of low-level southwesterly flow with the Olympic Mountains during COAST IOP 4, Mon. Weather Rev., 124, 2152-2175.
8. Daly, C., R. P. Neilson, and D. L. Phillips (1994), A statistical topographic model for mapping climatological precipitation over mountainous terrain, J. Appl. Meteorol., 33(2), 140-158.
9. Davies, H. C. (1976), A lateral boundary formulation for multi-level prediction models, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 102, 405-418.
10. Déry, S. J., and M. K. Yau (2002), Large-scale mass balance effects of blowing snow and surface sublimation, J. Geophys. Res., 107 D23), 4679, doi:10.1029/2001JD001251.
11. Durran, D. R., and J. B. Klemp (1982), On the effects of moisture on the Brunt-Väisälä frequency, J. Atmos. Sci., 39, 2152-2158.
12. Frei, C., and C. Schär (1998), A precipitation climatology of the Alps from high-resolution rain-gauge observations, Int. J. Climatol., 18(8), 873-900.
13. Frei, C., J. H. Christensen, M. Deque, D. Jacob, R. G. Jones, and P. L. Vidale (2003), Daily precipitation statistics in regional climate models: Evaluation and intercomparison for the European Alps, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D3), 4124, doi:10.1029/2002JD002287.
14. Gallée, H., G. Guyomarc'h, and E. Brun (2001), Impact of snow drift on the Antarctic ice sheet surface mass balance: Possible sensitivity to snowsurface properties, Boundary Layer Meteorol., 99, 1-19.
15. Houze, R. A., C. N. James, and S. Medina (2001), Radar observations of precipitation and airflow on the Mediterranean side of the Alps: Autumn 1998 and 1999, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 127, 2537-2558.
16. Jiang, Q. F., and R. B. Smith (2003), Cloud timescales and orographic precipitation, J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 1543-1559.
17. Katzfey, J. J. (1995), Simulation of extreme New Zealand precipitation events: 1. Sensitivity to orography and resolution, Mon. Weather Rev., 123, 737-754.
18. Kiilsholm, S., J. H. Christensen, K. Dethloff, and A. Rinke (2003), Net accumulation of the Greenland ice sheet: High resolution modeling of climate changes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(9), 1485, doi:10.1029/ 2002GL015742.
19. King, J. C. (1994), Recent climate variability in the vicinity of the Antarctic Peninsula, Int. J. Climatol., 14(4), 357-369.
20. King, J. C., and J. C. Comiso (2003), The spatial coherence of interannual temperature variations in the Antarctic Peninsula, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(2), 1040, doi:10.1029/2002GL015580.
21. King, J. C., P. S. Anderson, M. C. Smith, and S. D. Mobbs (1996), The surface energy and mass balance at Halley, Antarctica during winter, J. Geophys. Res., 101(D14), 19,119-19,128.
22. Lenderink, G., and E. Van Meijgaard (2001), Impacts of cloud and turbulence schemes on integrated water vapor: Comparison between model predictions and GPS measurements, Meteorol. Atmos. Phys., 77, 131-144.
23. Lenderink, G., et al. (2004), The diurnal cycle of shallow cumulus clouds over land: A single column model intercomparison study, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., in press.
24. Mann, G. W., P. S. Anderson, and S. D. Mobbs (2000), Profile measurements of blowing snow at Halley, Antarctica, J. Geophys. Res., 105(D19), 24,491-24,508.
25. Marshall, G. J. (2000), An examination of the precipitation regime at Thurston Island, Antarctica, from ECMWF re-analysis data, Int. J. Climatol., 20(3), 255-277.
26. Marshall, G. J. (2002), Analysis of recent circulation and thermal advection change in the northern Antarctic Peninsula, Int. J. Climatol., 22(12), 1557-1567.
27. Marshall, G. J., V. Lagun, and T. A. Lachlan-Cope (2002), Changes in Antarctic Peninsula tropospheric temperatures from 1956 to 1999: A synthesis of observations and reanalysis data, Int. J. Climatol., 22 3), 291-310.
28. Mass, C. F., and G. K. Ferber (1990), Surface pressure perturbations produced by an isolated mesoscale topographic barrier: 1. General-characteristics and dynamics., Mon. Weather Rev., 118, 2579-2596.
29. Mass, C. F., D. Ovens, K. Westrick, and B. A. Colle (2002), Does increasing horizontal resolution produce more skillful forecasts? The results of two years of real-time numerical weather prediction over the Pacific northwest, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 83(3), 407-430.
30. Orr, A., D. Cresswell, G. J. Marshall, J. C. R. Hunt, J. Sommeria, C. G. Wang, and M. Light (2004), A "low-level" explanation for the recent large warming trend over the western Antarctic Peninsula involving blocked winds and changes in zonal circulation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L06204, doi:10.1029/2003GL019160.
31. Parish, T. R. (1982), Barrier winds along the Sierra-Nevada mountains, J. Appl. Meteorol., 21(7), 925-930.
32. Pascoe, C. L. (2002), Cyclolysis and cyclogenesis at the Antarctic Peninsula, Ph.D. thesis, 186 pp., Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, U. K.
33. Peel, D. A. (1992), Ice core evidence from the Antarctic Peninsula region, in Climate Since A.D. 1500, edited by R. S. Bradley and P. D. Jones, pp. 549-571, Routledge, New York.
34. Potter, J. R., and J. G. Paren (1985), Interaction between ice shelf and ocean in George VI sound, Antarctica, in Oceanology of the Antarctic Continental Shelf, Antarct. Res. Ser., vol. 43, edited by S. S. Jacobs, pp. 35-58, AGU, Washington D. C.
35. Reijmer, C. H., E. van Meijgaard, and M. R. van den Broeke (2004), Numerical studies with a regional atmospheric climate model based on changes in the roughness length for momentum and heat over Antarctica, Boundary Layer Meteorol., 111, 313 -337.
36. Roeckner, E., K. Arpe, L. Bengtsson, M. Christoph, M. Claussen, L. Dümenil, M. Esch, M. Giorgetta, U. Schlese, and U. Schulzweida (1996), The atmospheric general circulation model ECHAM-4: Model description and simulation of present-day climate, Rep. 218, Max-Planck Inst. für Meteorol., Hamburg, Germany.
37. Skvarca, P., W. Rack, H. Ron, and T. I. Y. Donangelo (1999), Climatic trend and the retreat and disintegration of ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula: An overview, Polar Res., 18(2), 151-157.
38. Smith, R. B. (1979), The influence of mountains on the atmosphere, Adv. Geophys., 21, 87-230.
39. Sundqvist, H. (1978), A parameterization scheme for non-convective condensation including prediction of cloud water content., Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 104, 677-690.
40. Turner, J., S. R. Colwell, and S. Harangozo (1997), Variability of precipitation over the coastal western Antarctic Peninsula from synoptic observations, J. Geophys. Res., 102(D12), 13,999-14,007.
41. Turner, J., W. M. Connolley, S. Leonard, G. J. Marshall, and D. G. Vaughan (1999), Spatial and temporal variability of net snow accumulation over the Antarctic from ECMWF re-analysis project data, Int. J. Climatol., 19(7), 697-724.
42. Turner, J., T. A. Lachlan-Cope, G. J. Marshall, E. M. Morris, R. Mulvaney, and W. Winter (2002), Spatial variability of Antarctic Peninsula net surface mass balance, J. Geophys. Res., 107(D13), 4173, doi:10.1029/2001JD000755.
43. Turner, J., S. R. Colwell, G. J. Marshall, T. A. Lachlan-Cope, A. M. Carleton, P. D. Jones, V. Lagun, P. A. Reid, and S. Iagovkina (2004), The SCAR READER project: Towards a high-quality database of mean Antarctic meteorological observations, J. Clim., 17, 2890-2898.
44. van den Broeke, M. R., and R. Bintanja (1995), The interaction of katabatic wind and the formation of blue ice areas in East Antarctica, J. Glaciol., 41, 395-407.
45. van den Broeke, M. R., and N. P. M. van Lipzig (2003), Response of wintertime Antarctic temperatures to the Antarctic Oscillation: Results of a regional climate model, in Antarctic Peninsula Climate Variability: A Historical and Paleoenvironmental Perspective, Antarct. Res. Ser., vol. 79, edited by E. Domack et al., pp. 43-58, AGU, Washington, D. C.
46. van Lipzig, N. P. M., E. van Meijgaard, and J. Oerlemans (1999), Evaluation of a regional atmospheric climate model using measurements of surface heat exchange processes from a site in Antarctica, Mon. Weather Rev., 127, 1994-2001.
47. van Lipzig, N. P. M., E. van Meijgaard, and J. Oerlemans (2002a), The effect of temporal variations in the surface mass balance and temperature inversion strength on the interpretation of ice-core signals, J. Glaciol., 48, 611-621.
48. van Lipzig, N. P. M., E. van Meijgaard, and J. Oerlemans (2002b), The spatial and temporal variability of the surface mass balance in Antarctica: Results from a regional atmospheric climate model, Int. J. Climatol., 22(10), 1197-1217.
49. Vaughan, D, G., and C. S. M. Doake (1996), Recent atmospheric warming and retreat of ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula, Nature, 379 6563), 328-331.
50. Werner, M., U. Mikolajewicz, M. Heimann, and G. Hoffmann (2000), Borehole versus isotope temperatures on Greenland: Seasonality does matter, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27(5), 723-726.
51. Wu, Y. H., S. Raman, U. C. Mohanty, and R. V. Madala (2002), Sensitivity of monsoon circulation and precipitation over India to model horizontal resolution and orographic effects, Meteorol. Appl., 9(3), 345-356.