Noël, Brice P Y (2017): Average surface mass balance (SMB) components at 1 km for the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (1958-1995 and 1996-2015), links to RACMO2.3 model results in NetCDF format [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.881315, Supplement to: Noël, Brice P Y; van de Berg, Willem Jan; Lhermitte, Stef; Wouters, Bert; Schaffer, Nicole; van den Broeke, Michiel R (2018): Six decades of glacial mass loss in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, 123(6), 1430-1449, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JF004304
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Abstract:
The Canadian Arctic Archipelago (CAA) comprises multiple small glaciers and ice caps mostly concentrated on Ellesmere and Baffin Islands in the northern (NCAA) and southern parts (SCAA) of the archipelago, respectively. Because these glaciers are small and show complex geometries, current regional climate models, using 5 to 20 km horizontal resolution, do not properly resolve surface mass balance (SMB) patterns. Here, we present a 58-year (1958-2015) reconstruction of daily SMB of the CAA, statistically downscaled to 1 km from the output of the regional climate model RACMO2.3 at 11 km. By correcting for biases in elevation and ice albedo, the downscaling method significantly improves runoff estimates over narrow outlet glaciers and isolated ice fields. Since the last two decades, NCAA and SCAA glaciers have experienced warmer conditions (+1.1°C) resulting in continued mass loss of 28.2 ± 11.5 Gt yr-1 and 22.0 ± 4.5 Gt yr-1 respectively, more than doubling (11.9 Gt yr-1) and doubling (11.9 Gt yr-1) the pre-1996 average. While the interior of NCAA ice caps can still buffer most of the additional melt, the lack of a perennial firn area over low-lying SCAA glaciers caused uninterrupted mass loss since the 1980s. In the absence of significant refreezing capacity, this indicates inevitable disappearance of these highly sensitive glaciers.
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 73.500000 * Median Longitude: -83.500000 * South-bound Latitude: 69.000000 * West-bound Longitude: -95.000000 * North-bound Latitude: 78.000000 * East-bound Longitude: -72.000000
Date/Time Start: 1958-01-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2015-12-31T00:00:00
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Comment:
Surface mass balance (SMB) components (mm w.e. per year), i.e. SMB, total precipitation (snow + rain), runoff and total melt (ice + snow), statistically downscaled from the output of RACMO2.3 to 1 km resolution covering the northern (NCAA) and southern (SCAA) Canadian Arctic Archipelago, averaged for the periods 1958-1995 and 1996-2015.
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| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
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| 1 | Event label | Event | Noël, Brice P Y | |||
| 2 | DATE/TIME | Date/Time | Noël, Brice P Y | Geocode – first year | ||
| 3 | DATE/TIME | Date/Time | Noël, Brice P Y | Geocode – last year | ||
| 4 | File content | Content | Noël, Brice P Y | |||
| 5 | File name | File name | Noël, Brice P Y | |||
| 6 | File format | File format | Noël, Brice P Y | |||
| 7 | File size | File size | kByte | Noël, Brice P Y | zipped | |
| 8 | Uniform resource locator/link to file | URL file | Noël, Brice P Y |
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
Size:
20 data points
Data
| 1 Event | 2 Date/Time (first year) | 3 Date/Time (last year) | 4 Content | 5 File name | 6 File format | 7 File size [kByte] (zipped) | 8 URL file |
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| NCAA | 1958 | 1995 | Surface mass balance, total precipitation (snow + rain), runoff and total melt (ice + snow) - northern Canadian Arctic Archipelago (1958-1995) | NCAA_1958-1995 | NetCDF | 24565 | NCAA_1958-1995.zip |
| NCAA | 1996 | 2015 | Surface mass balance, total precipitation (snow + rain), runoff and total melt (ice + snow) - northern Canadian Arctic Archipelago (1996-2015) | NCAA_1996-2015 | NetCDF | 24561 | NCAA_1996-2015.zip |
| SCAA | 1958 | 1995 | Surface mass balance, total precipitation (snow + rain), runoff and total melt (ice + snow) - southern Canadian Arctic Archipelago (1958-1995) | SCAA_1958-1995 | NetCDF | 26768 | SCAA_1958-1995.zip |
| SCAA | 1996 | 2015 | Surface mass balance, total precipitation (snow + rain), runoff and total melt (ice + snow) - southern Canadian Arctic Archipelago (1996-2015) | SCAA_1996-2015 | NetCDF | 26780 | SCAA_1996-2015.zip |