Greenland surface mass balance as simulated by the community earth system model. Part I: Model evaluation and 1850-2005 results

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 7793-7812

  Vizcaíno, Miren ^a,b,g   Lipscomb, William H ^c   Sacks, William J ^d   Van Angelen, Jan H ^a   Wouters, Bert ^e,f   Van Den Broeke, Michiel R ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^g DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CLIMATE; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS; PRECIPITATION RATES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SURFACE MASS BALANCE;

CLIMATE MODELS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; RAIN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOWNSCALING; GIS; ICE SHEET; MARGINAL SEA; MASS BALANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84885224737     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00615.1     Document Type: Article

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