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van Wessem, Jan Melchior; van de Berg, Willem Jan; Noel, Brice P. Y; van Meijgaard, Erik; Amory, Charles; Birnbaum, Gerit; Jakobs, Constantijn L; Kruger, Konstantin; Lenaerts, Jan T. M; Lhermitte, Stef; Ligtenberg, Stefan R. M; Medley, Brooke; Reijmer, Carleen H; van Tricht, Kristof; Trusel, Luke D; van Ulft, Lambertus H; Wouters, Bert; Wuite, Jan; van den Broeke, Michiel R
The cryosphere, 04/2018, Volume: 12, Issue: 4Journal Article, Web Resource
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, incorporates upper-air relaxation, a revised topography, tuned parameters in the cloud scheme to generate more precipitation towards the AIS interior and modified snow properties reducing drifting snow sublimation and increasing surface snowmelt.
