Ice and Climate: Polar climate modelling

Firn densification model (FDM)

Ice and Climate:
Polar climate modelling

Introduction

Data FDM

Data Snowpack

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Data FDM

Antarctica

Name:	*FDM ANT27*
Resolution:	27.5 km, 262 x 240 points
Domain:	Antarctica
Period:	1979 - 2014
Forcing:	RACMO2.3p1
Key publication:	Unpublished

Name:	*FDM ANT5.5/DML*
Resolution:	5.5 km, 456 x 330 points
Domain:	Dronning Maud Land Antarctica
Period:	1979 - 2012
Forcing:	RACMO2.3p1
Key publication:	Unpublished

Name:	*FDM ANT5.5/Pen*
Resolution:	5.5 km, 330 x 294 points
Domain:	Antarctic Peninsula
Period:	1979 - 2014
Forcing:	RACMO2.3p1
Key publication:	Unpublished

Name:	*FDM ANT27*
Resolution:	27.5 km, 262 x 240 points
Domain:	Antarctica
Period:	1979 - 2013
Forcing:	RACMO2.1
Key publication:	Ligtenberg et al., 2011. An improved semi-empirical model for the densification of Antarctic firn. The Cryosphere, 5, 809-819, doi:10.5194/tc-5-809-2011.

Greenland

Name:	*FDM GRIS11/3*
Resolution:	16 km xx x xx points
Domain:	Greenland ice sheet
Period:	1979 - 2014
Forcing:	RACMO2.3p1
Key publication:	Steger et al. 2017. Firn meltwater retention on the Greenland Ice Sheet: a model comparison. Front. Earth Sci., 5, 3, doi:10.3389/feart.2017.00003

Data Snowpack

Greenland

Name:	*SNOWPACK GRIS11/3*
Resolution:	16 km xx x xx points
Domain:	Greenland ice sheet
Period:	1979 - 2014
Forcing:	RACMO2.3p1
Key publication:	Steger et al. 2017. Firn meltwater retention on the Greenland Ice Sheet: a model comparison. Front. Earth Sci., 5, 3, doi:10.3389/feart.2017.00003