Monthly RACMO2.4p1 data for Greenland (11 km) and Antarctica (27 km) for SMB, SEB, near-surface temperature and wind speed (2006-2015)

Monthly-accumulated (named monthlyS) and monthly-averaged (named monthlyA) data for RACMO2.4p1 for Greenland (GRN) and Antarctica (ANT) on a 11 km and 27 km horizontal resolution grid, respectively, are presented in this data set and are available for 2006 until 2015. The data include the surface mass balance (SMB), snow melt (mltgl), refreezing (rfrzgl), precipitation (pr), runoff (totrunoff), drifting snow erosion (sndiv), sublimation (sublgl) and sublimation due to blowing snow (sublsd), all in kg m-2 mo-1. For the surface energy balance (SEB): the downward shortwave radiation (rsds), shortwave upward radiation (rsus), downward longwave radiation (rlds), upward longwave radiation (rlus), sensible heat flux (hfss) and latent heat flux (hfls) are available. The SEB components are in J m-2. To convert to W m-2, divide by the amount of seconds in a month. In addition, the near-surface temperature (tas), in K, and near-surface wind speed (sfcwind), in m s-1, are included.

This data set does not represent new surface mass balance and climate products for Greenland and Antarctica. This will follow in later publications, where RACMO2.4 simulations are presented covering the full historical time period of ERA5 with higher horizontal resolution.