Calibration and evaluation of a high-resolution surface mass-balance model for Paakitsoq, West Greenland

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 58, Issue 212, 2012, Pages 1047-1062

  Banwell, Alison F ^a   Willis, Ian C ^a   Arnold, Neil S ^a   Messerli, Alexandra ^a,b   Rye, Cameron J ^a,c   Tedesco, Marco ^d   Ahlstrøm, Andreas P ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; GLACIAL LAKE; GLACIOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; ICE SHEET; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MASS BALANCE; MELTWATER; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW; SNOWPACK;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; PAAKITSOQ;

EID: 84868024450     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/2012JoG12J034     Document Type: Article

References (94)

1. Ahlstrøm AP, Mottram RH, Nielsen CS, Reeh N and Andersen SB (2008) Evaluation of the future hydropower potential at Paakitsoq, Ilulissat, West Greenland: technical report. Dan. Grønl. Geol. Unders. Rapp. 37
2. Alley RB, Dupont TK, Parizek BR and Anandakrishnan S (2005) Access of surface meltwater to beds of sub-freezing glaciers: preliminary insights. Ann. Glaciol., 40, 8-14 (doi: 10.3189/ 172756405781813483)
3. Alley RB and 13 others (2010) History of the Greenland Ice Sheet: paleoclimatic insights. Quat. Sci. Rev., 29(15-16), 1728-1756 (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.02.007)
4. Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) (2009) Summary: the Greenland ice sheet in a changing climate: Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA). AMAP, Oslo
5. Arnold N (2005) Investigating the sensitivity of glacier massbalance/ elevation profiles to changing meteorological conditions: model experiments for Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Valais, Switzerland. Arct. Antarct. Alp. Res., 37(2), 139-145
6. Arnold NS and Rees WG (2003) Self-similarity in glacier surface characteristics. J. Glaciol., 49(167), 547-554 (doi: 10.3189/ 172756503781830368)
7. Arnold NS, Willis IC, Sharp MJ, Richards KS and Lawson WJ (1996) A distributed surface energy-balance model for a small valley glacier. I. Development and testing for Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Valais, Switzerland. J. Glaciol., 42(140), 77-89
8. Arnold NS, Rees WG, Hodson AJ and Kohler J (2006) Topographic controls on the surface energy balance of a high Arctic valley glacier. J. Geophys. Res., 111(F2), F02011 (doi: 10.1029/ 2005JF000426)
9. Bales RC and 8 others (2009) Annual accumulation for Greenland updated using ice core data developed during 2000-2006 and analysis of daily coastal meteorological data. J. Geophys. Res., 114(D6), D06301 (doi: 10.1029/2008JD010600)
10. Bartholomew I and 6 others (2011) Supraglacial forcing of subglacial drainage in the ablation zone of the Greenland ice sheet. Geophys. Res. Lett., 38(8), L08502 (doi: 10.1029/ 2011GL047063)
11. Bassford RP (2002) Geophysical and numerical modelling investigations of the ice caps in Severnaya Zemlya. (PhD thesis, University of Bristol)
12. Bougamont M, Bamber JL and Greuell W (2005) A surface mass balance model for the Greenland Ice Sheet. J. Geophys. Res., 110(F4), F04018 (doi: 10.1029/2005JF000348)
13. Box JE and Ski K (2007) Remote sounding of Greenland supraglacial melt lakes: implications for subglacial hydraulics. J. Glaciol., 53(181), 257-265 (doi: 10.3189/172756507782202883)
14. Box JE and 8 others (2006) Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance variability (1988-2004) from calibrated polar MM5 output. J. Climate, 19(12), 2783-2800 (doi: 10.1175/JCLI3738.1)
15. Box JE, Yang L, Bromwich DH and Bai L-S (2009) Greenland ice sheet surface air temperature variability: 1840-2007. J. Climate, 22(14), 4029-4049 (doi: 10.1175/2009JCLI2816.1)
16. Braithwaite RJ and Olesen OB (1993) Seasonal variation of ice ablation at the margin of the Greenland ice sheet and its sensitivity to climate change, Qamanârssûp sermia, West Greenland. J. Glaciol., 39(132), 267-274
17. Brock BW, Willis IC, Sharp MJ and Arnold NS (2000) Modelling seasonal and spatial variations in the surface energy balance of Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland. Ann. Glaciol., 31, 53-62 (doi: 10.3189/172756400781820183)
18. Brutsaert W F (1975) Water quality modeling by Monte Carlo simulation. Water Res. Bull., 11(2), 229-236
19. Burgess EW and 6 others (2010) A spatially calibrated model of annual accumulation rate on the Greenland Ice Sheet (1958- 2007). J. Geophys. Res., 115(F2), F02004 (doi: 10.1029/ 2009JF001293)
20. Cappellen and others (2010) DMI monthly data collection 1768- 2009, Denmark, The Faroe Islands and Greenland. Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen (DMI Tech. Rep. 10-05)
21. Catania GA and Neumann TA (2010) Persistent englacial drainage features in the Greenland Ice Sheet. Geophys. Res. Lett., 37(2), L02501 (doi: 10.1029/2009GL041108)
22. Catania GA, Neumann TA and Price SF (2008) Characterizing englacial drainage in the ablation zone of the Greenland ice sheet. J. Glaciol., 54(187), 567-578 (doi: 10.3189/ 002214308786570854)
23. Chander G, Markham BL and Helder DL (2009) Summary of current radiometric calibration coefficients for Landsat MSS, TM, ETM+, and EO-1 ALI sensors. Remote Sens. Environ., 113(5), 893-903 (doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.01.007)
24. Chen JL, Wilson CR and Tapley BD (2011) Interannual variability of Greenland ice losses from satellite gravimetry. J. Geophys. Res., 116(B7), B07406 (doi: 10.1029/2010JB007789)
25. Cogley JG and 10 others (2011) Glossary of glacier mass balance and related terms. UNESCO-International Hydrological Programme, Paris (IHP-VII Technical Documents in Hydrology 86)
26. Colgan W and 7 others (2011) The annual glaciohydrology cycle in the ablation zone of the Greenland ice sheet: Part 1. Hydrology model. J. Glaciol., 57(204), 697-709 (doi: 10.3189/ 002214311797409668)
27. Cuffey KM and Paterson WSB (2010) The physics of glaciers, 4th edn. Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford
28. Das SB and 6 others (2008) Fracture propagation to the base of the Greenland Ice Sheet during supraglacial lake drainage. Science, 320(5877), 778-781 (doi: 10.1126/science.1153360)
29. Dyer AJ (1974) A review of flux-profile relationships. Bound.-Layer Meteorol., 7(3), 363-372 (doi: 10.1007/BF00240838)
30. Ettema J, Van den Broeke MR, Van Meijgaard E, Van de Berg WJ, Box JE and Steffen K (2010) Climate of the Greenland ice sheet using a high-resolution climate model: Part 1: evaluation. Cryos. Discuss., 4(4), 511-627 (doi: 10.5194/tc-4-511-2010)
31. Fettweis X (2007) Reconstruction of the 1979-2006 Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance using the regional climate model MAR. Cryosphere, 1(1), 21-40 (doi: 10.5194/tc-1-21-2007)
32. Fettweis X, Mabille G, Erpicum M, Nicolay S and Van den Broeke M (2011a) The 1958-2009 Greenland ice sheet surface melt and the mid-tropospheric atmospheric circulation. Climate Dyn., 36(1-2), 139-159 (doi: 10.1007/s00382-010-0772-8)
33. Fettweis X, Tedesco M, Van den Broeke M and Ettema J (2011b) Melting trends over the Greenland ice sheet (1958-2009) from spaceborne microwave data and regional climate models. Cryosphere, 5(2), 359-375 (doi: 10.5194/tc-5-359-2011)
34. Gardner AS and Sharp MJ (2010) A review of snow and ice albedo and the development of a new physically based broadband albedo parameterization. J. Geophys. Res., 115(F1), F01009 (doi: 10.1029/2009JF001444)
35. Greuell Wand Knap WH (2000) Remote sensing of the albedo and detection of the slush line on the Greenland ice sheet. J. Geophys. Res., 105(D12), 15567-15576 (doi: 10.1029/ 1999JD901162)
36. Greuell JW and Konzelmann T (1994) Numerical modeling of the energy balance and the englacial temperature of the Greenland ice sheet: calculations for the ETH-Camp location (West Greenland, 1155 m a.s.l.). Global Planet. Change, 9(1-2), 91-114
37. Griffin MK, Hsu SM, Burke HK, Orloff SM and Upham CA (2005) Examples of EO-1 Hyperion data analysis. Lincoln Lab. J., 15(2), 271-298
38. Gupta RP, Haritashya UK and Singh P (2005) Mapping dry/wet snow cover in the Indian Himalayas using IRS multispectral imagery. Remote Sens. Environ., 97(4), 458-469 (doi: 10.1016/ j.rse.2005.05.010)
39. Hall DK, Riggs GA and Salomonson VV (1995) Development of methods for mapping global snow cover using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data. Remote Sens. Environ., 54(2), 127-140 (doi: 10.1016/0034-4257(95) 00137-P)
40. Hall DK, Riggs GA and Salomonson VV (2006) updated daily. MODIS/Terra Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 500m Grid, Version 5. National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO. Digital media: nsidc.org/data/MOD10A1V5.html
41. Hall DK, Williams RS, Jr, Luthcke SB and Digirolamo NE (2008) Greenland ice sheet surface temperature, melt and mass loss: 2000-2006. J. Glaciol., 54(184), 81-93 (doi: 10.3189/ 002214308784409170)
42. Hanna E, Huybrechts P, Janssens I, Cappelen J, Steffen K and Stephens A (2005) Runoff and mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet: 1958-2003. J. Geophys. Res., 110(D13), D13108 (doi: 10.1029/2004JD005641)
43. Hanna E and 8 others (2008) Increased runoff from melt from the Greenland Ice Sheet: a response to global warming. J. Climate, 21(2), 331-341
44. Hooke RLeB, Calla P, Holmlund P, Nilsson M and Stroeven A (1989) A 3 year record of seasonal variations in surface velocity, Storglaciären, Sweden. J. Glaciol., 35(120), 235-247
45. Howat IM, Ahn Y, Joughin I, Van den Broeke MR, Lenaerts JTM and Smith B (2011) Mass balance of Greenland's three largest outlet glaciers, 2000-2010. Geophys. Res. Lett., 38(12), L12501 (doi: 10.1029/2011GL047565)
46. Iken A and Bindschadler RA (1986) Combined measurements of subglacial water pressure and surface velocity of Findelengletscher, Switzerland: conclusions about drainage system and sliding mechanism. J. Glaciol., 32(110), 101-119
47. Janssens I and Huybrechts P (2000) The treatment of meltwater retardation in mass-balance parameterizations of the Greenland ice sheet. Ann. Glaciol., 31, 133-140 (doi: 10.3189/ 172756400781819941)
48. Joughin I, Abdalati Wand Fahnestock MA (2004) Large fluctuations in speed on Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbræ glacier. Nature, 432(7017), 608-610 (doi: 10.1038/nature03130)
49. Joughin I, Das SB, King MA, Smith BE, Howat IM and Moon T (2008) Seasonal speedup along the western flank of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Science, 320(5877), 781-783 (doi: 10.1126/science.1153288)
50. Joughin I, Smith BE, Howat IM, Scambos T and Moon T (2010) Greenland flow variability from ice-sheet-wide velocity mapping. J. Glaciol., 56(197), 415-430 (doi: 10.3189/ 002214310792447734)
51. Klein AG and Barnett AC (2003) Validation of daily MODIS snow cover maps of the Upper Rio Grande River Basin for the 2000- 2001 snow year. Remote Sens. Environ., 86(2), 162-176 (doi: 10.1016/S0034-4257(03)00097-X)
52. Klein AG and Stroeve J (2002) Development and validation of a snow albedo algorithm for the MODIS instrument. Ann. Glaciol., 34, 45-52 (doi: 10.3189/172756402781817662)
53. König M, Winther J and Isaksson E (2001) Measuring snow and glacier ice properties from satellite. Rev. Geophys., 39(1), 1-27
54. Konzelmann T, Van de Wal RSW, Greuell JW, Bintanja R, Henneken EAC and Abe-Ouchi A (1994) Parameterization of global and longwave incoming radiation for the Greenland ice sheet. Global Planet. Change, 9(1-2), 143-164 (doi: 10.1016/ 0921-8181(94)90013-2)
55. Krabill W and 12 others (2004) Greenland Ice Sheet: increased coastal thinning. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31(24), L24402 (doi: 10.1029/2004GL021533)
56. Lathrop RG, Lillesand TM and Yandell BS (1991) Testing the utility of simple multi-date Thematic Mapper calibration algorithms for monitoring turbid inland waters. Int. J. Remote Sens., 12(10), 2045-2063 (doi: 10.1080/01431169108955235)
57. MacFerrin MJ (2011) Characterizations and recommendations for ASTER GDEM errors on the Greenland ice sheet from Level-2 ATM lidar. Am. Geophys. Union, Fall Meet. [Abstr. C31A-0618]
58. Mair D, Nienow P, Sharp M, Wohlleben T and Willis I (2002) Influence of subglacial drainage system evolution on glacier surface motion: Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland. J. Geophys. Res., 107(B8), 2175 (doi: 10.1029/2001JB000514)
59. McMillan M, Nienow P, Shepherd A, Benham T and Sole A (2007) Seasonal evolution of supra-glacial lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 262(3-4), 484-492 (doi: 10.1016/ j.epsl.2007.08.002)
60. Mernild SH, Liston GE, Hiemstra CA and Steffen K (2008) Surface melt area and water balance modeling on the Greenland ice sheet 1995-2005. J. Hydromet., 9(6), 1191-1211 (doi: 10.1175/ 2008JHM957.1)
61. Mote TL (2007) Greenland surface melt trends 1973-2007: evidence of a large increase in 2007. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34(22), L22507 (doi: 10.1029/2007GL031976)
62. Mottram R and 7 others (2009) A new regional high-resolution map of basal and surface topography for the Greenland ice-sheet margin at Paakitsoq, West Greenland. Ann. Glaciol., 50(51), 105-111 (doi: 10.3189/172756409789097577)
63. Munro DS (1990) Comparison of melt energy computations and ablatometer measurements on melting ice and snow. Arct. Alp. Res., 22(2), 153-162
64. Oerlemans J (1991a) The mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet: sensitivity to climate change as revealed by energy-balance modelling. Holocene, 1(1), 40-49
65. Oerlemans J (1991b) A model for the surface balance of ice masses: Part 1. Alpine glaciers. Z. Gletscherkd. Glazialgeol., 27/28, 63-83
66. Oerlemans J and Hoogendoorn NC (1989) Mass-balance gradients and climatic change. J. Glaciol., 35(121), 399-405
67. Ohmura A and Reeh N (1991) New precipitation and accumulation maps for Greenland. J. Glaciol., 37(125), 140-148
68. Ohmura A, Wild M and Bengtsson L (1996) A possible change in mass balance of Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets in the coming century. J. Climate, 9(9), 2124-2135
69. Oke TR (1987) Boundary layer climate, 2nd edn. Routledge, London
70. Price SF, Payne AJ, Catania GA and Neumann TA (2008) Seasonal acceleration of inland ice via longitudinal coupling to marginal ice. J. Glaciol., 54(185), 213-219 (doi: 10.3189/ 002214308784886117)
71. Rignot E and Kanagaratnam P (2006) Changes in the velocity structure of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Science, 311(5673), 986- 990 (doi: 10.1126/science. 1121381)
72. Rignot E, Box JE, Burgess E and Hanna E (2008) Mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet from 1958 to 2007. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35(20), L20502 (doi: 10.1029/2008GL035417)
73. Rye CJ, Arnold NS, Willis IC and Kohler J (2010) Modeling the surface mass balance of a high Arctic glacier using the ERA-40 reanalysis. J. Geophys. Res., 115(F2), F02014 (doi: 10.1029/ 2009JF001364)
74. Schoof C (2010) Ice-sheet acceleration driven by melt supply variability. Nature, 468(7325), 803-806 (doi: 10.1038/ nature09618)
75. Selmes N, Murray T and James TD (2011) Fast draining lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Geophys. Res. Lett., 38(L15), L15501 (doi: 10.1029/2011GL047872)
76. Sneed WA and Hamilton GS (2007) Evolution of melt pond volume on the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34(3), L03501 (doi: 10.1029/2006GL028697)
77. Sohn HG, Jezek KC and Van der Veen CJ (1998) Jakobshavn Glacier, West Greenland: 30 years of spaceborne observations. Geophys. Res. Lett., 25(14), 2699-2702 (doi: 10.1029/ 98GL01973)
78. Solomon S and 7 others eds (2007) Climate change 2007: the physical science basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
79. Steffen K and Box J (2001) Surface climatology of the Greenland ice sheet: Greenland Climate Network 1995-1999. J. Geophys. Res., 106(D24), 33 951-33 964 (doi: 10.1029/2001JD900161)
80. Stroeve JC, Box JE and Haran T (2006) Evaluation of the MODIS (MOD10A1) daily snow albedo product over the Greenland ice sheet. Remote Sens. Environ., 105(2), 155-171 (doi: 10.1016/ j.rse.2006.06.009)
81. Tedesco M (2007) Snowmelt detection over the Greenland ice sheet from SSM/I brightness temperature daily variations. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34(2), L02504 (doi: 10.1029/2006GL028466)
82. Tedesco M and 7 others (2011) The role of albedo and accumulation in the 2010 melting record in Greenland. Environ. Res. Lett., 6(1), 014005 (doi: 10.1088/17489326/6/1/014005)
83. Thomsen HH (1986) Photogrammetric and satellite mapping of the margin of the inland ice, West Greenland. Ann. Glaciol., 8, 164-167
84. Thomsen HH, Thorning L and Braithwaite RJ (1988) Glacierhydrological conditions on the Inland Ice north-east of Jacobshavn/Ilulissat, West Greenland. Rapp. Grønl. Geol. Unders. 138.
85. Van de Wal RSW and 6 others (2008) Large and rapid melt-induced velocity changes in the ablation zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Science, 321(5885), 111-113 (doi: 10.1126/science. 1158540)
86. Van den Broeke MR, Van As D, Reijmer C and Van de Wal R (2004) Assessing and improving the quality of unattended radiation observations in Antarctica. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 21(9), 1417-1431
87. Van den Broeke M, Smeets P, Ettema J, Van der Veen C, Van de Wal R and Oerlemans J (2008) Partitioning of melt energy and meltwater fluxes in the ablation zone of the west Greenland ice sheet. Cryosphere, 2(2), 179-189 (doi: 10.5194/tc-2-179-2008)
88. Van den Broeke M and 8 others (2009) Partitioning recent Greenland mass loss. Science, 326(5955), 984-986 (doi: 10.1126/science.1178176)
89. Van der Veen CJ (2007) Fracture propagation as means of rapidly transferring surface meltwater to the base of glaciers. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34(1), L01501 (doi: 10.1029/2006GL028385)
90. Wakahama G, Kuroiwa D, Hasemi T and Benson CS (1976) Field observations and experimental and theoretical studies on the superimposed ice of McCall Glacier, Alaska. J. Glaciol., 16(74), 135-149
91. Wright AP (2005) The impact of meltwater refreezing on the mass balance of a high Arctic glacier. (PhD thesis, University of Bristol)
92. Zuo Z and Oerlemans J (1996) Modelling albedo and specific balance of the Greenland ice sheet: calculations for the Søndre Strømfjord transect. J. Glaciol., 42(141), 305-317
93. Zwally HJ, Abdalati W, Herring T, Larson K, Saba J and Steffen K (2002) Surface melt-induced acceleration of Greenland icesheet flow. Science, 297(5579), 218-222 (doi: 10.1126/ science.1072708)
94. Zwally HJ and 11 others (2011) Greenland ice sheet mass balance: distribution of increased mass loss with climate warming; 2003-07 versus 1992-2002. J. Glaciol., 57(201), 88-102 (doi: 10.3189/002214311795306682)