DOI: 10.5194/tc-7-779-2013
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84883195697
论文题名: High-resolution interactive modelling of the mountain glacier-atmosphere interface: An application over the Karakoram
作者: Collier E ; , Mölg T ; , Maussion F ; , Scherer D ; , Mayer C ; , Bush A ; B ; G
刊名: Cryosphere
ISSN: 19940416
出版年: 2013
卷: 7, 期: 3 起始页码: 779
结束页码: 795
语种: 英语
英文关键词: atmospheric forcing
; basin analysis
; glacier mass balance
; image resolution
; land surface
; mesoscale meteorology
; mountain
; remote sensing
; simulation
; statistical analysis
; valley glacier
; Himalayas
; Karakoram
英文摘要: The traditional approach to simulations of alpine glacier mass balance (MB) has been one-way, or offline, thus precluding feedbacks from changing glacier surface conditions on the atmospheric forcing. In addition, alpine glaciers have been only simply, if at all, represented in atmospheric models to date. Here, we extend a recently presented, novel technique for simulating glacier-atmosphere interactions without the need for statistical downscaling, through the use of a coupled high-resolution mesoscale atmospheric and physically-based climatic mass balance (CMB) modelling system that includes glacier CMB feedbacks to the atmosphere. We compare the model results over the Karakoram region of the northwestern Himalaya with remote sensing data for the ablation season of 2004 as well as with in situ glaciological and meteorological measurements from the Baltoro glacier. We find that interactive coupling has a localized but appreciable impact on the near-surface meteorological forcing data and that incorporation of CMB processes improves the simulation of variables such as land surface temperature and snow albedo. Furthermore, including feedbacks from the glacier model has a non-negligible effect on simulated CMB, reducing modelled ablation, on average, by 0.1m w.e. (-6.0 %) to a total of -1.5m w.e. between 25 June-31 August 2004. The interactively coupled model shows promise as a new, multi-scale tool for explicitly resolving atmospheric-CMB processes of mountain glaciers at the basin scale. © Author(s) 2013. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/74963
Appears in Collections: 影响、适应和脆弱性 气候变化与战略
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作者单位: Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; Department of Climatology, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Commission for Geodesy and Glaciology, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich, Germany
Recommended Citation:
Collier E,, Mölg T,, Maussion F,et al. High-resolution interactive modelling of the mountain glacier-atmosphere interface: An application over the Karakoram[J]. Cryosphere,2013-01-01,7(3)