Ice and Climate: Polar climate modelling

 

Regional Atmospheric Climate Model (RACMO2)

Ice and Climate:
Polar climate modelling

Introduction

Data Antarctica

>  Present day

>  Historic

>  21st century

Data Greenland

>  Present day

>  Historic

>  21st century

Data Ice caps

>  Antarctic Peninsula

>  Canadian Arctic

>  Svalbard

>  Iceland

Introduction

Noel et al., GRL, 2021

NEEDS TO BE CHECKED, are all main runs lister? are the details correct, or add the details?

Over the years, RACMO has been applied to Antarctica, Greenland and some other glacierized regions for different time periods. Below is a list of the most recent runs of which the data is available. The current operational model version is RACMO2.3p2. Older versions are listed on the archive page.

Data Antarctica

Present day

Name:

RACMO2.3p2   ANT27

Resolution:

27.5 km (0.25°), 262 x 240 points, 40 levels

Domain:

Antarctic continent

Period:

1979-now

Forcing:

ERA-Interim / ERA5

RACMO data:

Available

Key publication:

  • Van Wessem et al., 2018. Modelling the climate and surface mass balance of polar ice sheets using racmo2 – part 2: Antarctica (1979–2016). The Cryosphere, 12(4), 1479–1498, doi: 10.5194/tc-12-1479-2018.

Name:

RACMO2.3p3   ANT27XX

Resolution:

27.5 km (0.25°), 262 x 240 points, 40 levels

Domain:

Antarctic continent

Period:

1979-??

Forcing:

ERA5?

RACMO data:

Available or Not?

Key publication:

  • VanDalum?
 
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Historic

Name:

RACMO2.3p2   ANT27XX

Resolution:

27.5 km (0.25°), ?? x ?? points, ?? levels

Domain:

Antarctic continent

Period:

1850-2015

Forcing:

CESM

RACMO data:

Available?

Key publication:

  • VanKampenhout?
 
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21st century

Name:

RACMO2.3p2   ANT27XX

Resolution:

27.5 km (0.25°), ?? x ?? points, ?? levels

Domain:

Antarctic continent

Period:

2015-2000

Forcing:

CESM RCP2.6 and RCP8.5

RACMO data:

Available

Key publication:

  • VanKampenhout?
 
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Data Greenland

Present day

Name:

RACMO2.3p2   FGRN055

Resolution:

5.5 km (0.05°), 438 x 566 points, 40 levels

Domain:

Greenland ice sheet

Period:

1957-now

Forcing:

ERA40 / ERA-Interim / ERA5

RACMO data:

Available, plus 1 km downscaled

Key publication:

  • Noël et al., 2018. Modelling the climate and surface mass balance of polar ice sheets using racmo2 – part 1: Greenland (1958–2016). The Cryosphere, 12(3), 811–831, doi: 10.5194/tc-12-811-2018.

Name:

RACMO2.3p3   FGRN11

Resolution:

11 km (0.10°), 326 x 327 points, 40 levels

Domain:

Greenland ice sheet

Period:

??-??

Forcing:

???

RACMO data:

Available??

Key publication:

  • Van Dalum et al., 2021. Impact of updated radiative transfer scheme in snow and ice in RACMO2.3p3 on the surface mass and energy budget of the Greenland ice sheet, The Cryosphere, 15, 1823–1844, doi:10.5194/tc-15-1823-2021.
 
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Historic

Name:

RACMO2.3p2   ANT27/2

Resolution:

11. km (0.10°), ?? x ?? points, 40 levels

Domain:

Greenland ice sheet

Period:

1850-2015

Forcing:

CESM

RACMO data:

Available?

Key publication:

  • NAv
 
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21st century

Name:

RACMO2.3p2   GRISXX

Resolution:

11 km (0.1°), ?? x ?? points, 40 levels

Domain:

Greenland ice sheet

Period:

2015-2000

Forcing:

CESM RCP2.6 and RCP8.5

RACMO data:

Available?

Key publication:

  • NAv
 
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Data Ice caps

Antarctic Peninsula

Name:

RACMO2.3p2   ANT27XX

Resolution:

5.5 km (0.05°), ?? x ?? points, 40 levels

Domain:

Antarctic Peninsula

Period:

1979-now

Forcing:

ERA-Interim / ERA5

RACMO data:

Available

Key publication:

  • Van Wessem et al., 2018. Modelling the climate and surface mass balance of polar ice sheets using racmo2 – part 2: Antarctica (1979–2016). The Cryosphere, 12(4), 1479–1498, doi: 10.5194/tc-12-1479-2018.
 
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Canadian Arctic

Name:

RACMO2.3p2   FGRN055/XCAA

Resolution:

11 km (0.1°), ?? x ?? points, 40 levels

Domain:

Canadian Arctic

Period:

1958-2015

Forcing:

ERA40 / ERA-Interim

RACMO data:

Available, plus 1 km downscaled

Key publication:

  • Noël et al., 2018. Six decades of glacial mass loss in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. J. Geophys. Res.: Earth Surface, 123, 1430–1449. doi: 10.1029/2017JF004304.
 
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Svalbard

Name:

RACMO2.3p2   SVALB035

Resolution:

11 km (0.1°), ?? x ?? points, 40 levels

Domain:

Svalbard

Period:

1957-2018

Forcing:

ERA40 / ERA-Interim

RACMO data:

Available?

Key publication:

  • Noël et al., 2020. Low elevation of svalbard glaciers drives high mass loss variability. Nature Communications, 11(1), 4597. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18356-1.
 
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Iceland

Name:

RACMO2.3p2   FGRN055/ICL

Resolution:

5.5 km (0.05°), ?? x ?? points, 40 levels

Domain:

Iceland

Period:

1957-now

Forcing:

ERA40 / ERA-Interim / ERA5

RACMO data:

Available, based on FGRN055, downscaled to 1 km

Key publication:

  • NAv
 
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