ASCAT-ERA5 and ASCAT-MERRA-2 Antarctic Peninsula Daily Surface Meltwater Production (2007-2022)
Description
Estimates of daily surface meltwater production across the Antarctic Peninsula over 2007-2022. These data were generated using a random forest model combining enhanced resolution ASCAT C-Band radar backscatter, ASCAT-detected surface melt presence (https://zenodo.org/record/7995998), and ERA5 or MERRA-2 reanalysis sensible and latent heat fluxes, downward shortwave and longwave radiation, and 2-m temperature. Initial model training was undertaken using meteorological observations and surface melt estimates from surface energy balance modeling at several Larsen ice shelf automated weather stations (Jakobs et al., 2020), before scaling up to the Antarctic Peninsula region using ERA5 or MERRA-2.
Note that the ASCAT-ERA5 melt estimates here are updated to v2 using a revised random forest melt prediction model.
The ASCAT-MERRA-2 melt estimates here are the initial release (v1).
This record will be updated upon publication of a forthcoming manuscript.
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Funding
- U.S. National Science Foundation
- Collaborative Research: Water on the Antarctic Ice Sheet: Quantifying Surface Melt and Mapping Supraglacial Lakes 2021699
References
- Jakobs, C. L., Reijmer, C. H., Smeets, C. J. P. P., Trusel, L. D., van de Berg, W. J., van den Broeke, M. R., & van Wessem, J. M. (2020). A benchmark dataset of in situ Antarctic surface melt rates and energy balance. Journal of Glaciology, 66(256), 291–302. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2020.6