Ice2Ice Greenland Surface Mass Balance Workshop
23rd -24th November 2017
Aims:
Workshop on Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance calculations and observations with a focus on ice sheet modelling and climate and ice core interpretation within ice2ice. We will compare SMB produced using different models and forced with C-Earth, NorESM, HIRHAM, WRF etc to examine the sensitivity of SMB to different methods of calculation and to evaluate what implications these have for ice sheet dynamics and the interaction between ice sheet and climate in models.
Session suggestions:
- SMB schemes: PDD, SEB, intermediate complexity SEB, problems with reconstructing SMB for long palaeoclimate runs
- Observations of Greenland SMB: Promice/Museum invited speaker, long-term records and reconstructions of SMB in Greenland
- Sensitivity analysis of SMB formulations: Topography, GCM/RCM, Albedo, SST + sea ice
- Implications of SMB for glacier dynamics and model inversion. Andreas (+ others) on ice sheet modelling
- CISSEMBEL introduction: Christian Rodehacke to present model, Ruth to present Devon Ice Cap work, Christian/Shuting on Greenland.
Preliminary Programme:
Thursday 23rd November
8:30 am coffee
9am -10.30am session 1 presentations
10:30 -10.45am break
10:45 – 12am Discussion session 1
12-1pm Lunch at DMI
1-3pm session 2
3 – 3.30 pm break
3.30-4.30pm Discussion session 2
Workshop Dinner 19:30
Friday 24th November
8:30 am coffee
9am -10.30am session 3 presentations
10:30 -10.45am break
10:45 – 12am Discussion session 3
12-1pm Lunch at DMI
1-2pm session 4
2 – 3.30 pm Discussion session 2 and wrap-up
Outcomes:
Paper on Modelling Ice Sheet Surface Mass Balance in Palaeoclimate Simulations
Review of different methods used, analysis of model sensitivity and impacts on modelled SMB and possible implications for ice sheet dynamics (not just a review paper!)
Open to other suggestions!
Please confirm your attendance to Ruth Mottram (rum@dmi.dk ) and/or Andreas Plach (andreas.plach@uib.no )
Please confirm attendance and submit any proposed talk title and ideally abstract by 20/11/2017.