DOI: 10.5194/tc-14-385-2020
论文题名: Relating regional and point measurements of accumulation in southwest Greenland
作者: Heilig A. ; Eisen O. ; Schneebeli M. ; Macferrin M. ; Max Stevens C. ; Vandecrux B. ; Steffen K.
刊名: Cryosphere
ISSN: 19940416
出版年: 2020
卷: 14, 期: 1 起始页码: 385
结束页码: 402
语种: 英语
英文关键词: calibration
; ice sheet
; mass balance
; meltwater
; remote sensing
; satellite data
; snow accumulation
; Arctic
; Greenland
英文摘要: In recent decades, the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) has frequently experienced record melt events, which have significantly affected surface mass balance (SMB) and estimates thereof. SMB data are derived from remote sensing, regional climate models (RCMs), firn cores and automatic weather stations (AWSs). While remote sensing and RCMs cover regional scales with extents ranging from 1 to 10 km, AWS data and firn cores are point observations. To link regional scales with point measurements, we investigate the spatial variability of snow accumulation (bs) within areas of approximately 1-4 km2 and its temporal changes within 2 years of measurements. At three different sites on the southwestern GrIS (Swiss Camp, KAN-U, DYE-2), we performed extensive ground-penetrating radar (GPR) transects and recorded multiple snow pits. If the density is known and the snowpack dry, radar-measured two-way travel time can be converted to snow depth and bs.We spatially filtered GPR transect data to remove small-scale noise related to surface characteristics. The combined uncertainty of bs from density variations and spatial filtering of radar transects is at 7 %- 8% per regional scale of 1-4 km2. Snow accumulation from a randomly selected snow pit is very likely representative of the regional scale of 1-4 km2 (with probability p = 0:8 for a value within 10% of the regional mean for KAN-U, and p > 0:95 for Swiss Camp and DYE-2). However, to achieve such high representativeness of snow pits, it is required to determine the average snow depth within the vicinity of the pits. At DYE-2, the spatial pattern of snow accumulation was very similar for 2 consecutive years. Using target reflectors placed at respective end-of-summer-melt horizons, we additionally investigated the occurrences of lateral redistribution within one melt season.We found no evidence of lateral flow of meltwater in the current climate at DYE-2. Such studies of spatial representativeness and temporal changes in accumulation are necessary to assess uncertainties of the linkages of point measurements and regional-scale data, which are used for validation and calibration of remote-sensing data and RCM outputs. © Author(s) 2020. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/164475
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作者单位: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany; WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland; Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany; Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States; Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Washington, WA, United States; Department of Glaciology and Climate, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark; Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Recommended Citation:
Heilig A.,Eisen O.,Schneebeli M.,et al. Relating regional and point measurements of accumulation in southwest Greenland[J]. Cryosphere,2020-01-01,14(1)