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Published October 13, 2022 | Version 1.1
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Output from the Glacier Energy and Mass Balance (GEMB v1.0) forced with 3-hourly ERA5 fields and gridded to 10km, Greenland and Antarctica 1979-June 2022

  • 1. Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Description

These model output of firn air content (FAC) and surface mass balance (SMB) are from version 1.0 of the open-source Glacier Energy and Mass Balance model. GEMB is a column model of ice sheet and glacier surface-atmospheric energy and mass exchange as well as firn state. GEMB has been integrated into the open-source Ice-Sheet and Sea-level System Model which can be downloaded at https://issm.jpl.nasa.gov/.  Here, GEMB is forced with 3-hourly ERA5 land output from 1979-June 2022.  For Greenland, the ERA5 surface temperature and downwelling longwave radiation forcing are spatially bias-corrected for each month.  All values are adjusted by the difference between the RACMO2.3 and the ERA5 1980-2015 monthly means. The GEMB output is bilinearly interpolated onto a 10km grid, from the native ISSM grid, and the output is given monthly.  

Notes

Small discontinuities in firn air content variability for dates during 2022 have been fixed in this new version.

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