Mass Balance Sensitivity and Future Projections of Rabots Glaciär, Sweden
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Mass-Balance Sensitivity Computation
2.3. Future Projections of Mass Balance
2.4. Validation
3. Results
3.1. Sensitivity
3.1.1. Annual Mass Balance Sensitivity
3.1.2. Summer Mass Balance Sensitivity
3.1.3. Winter Mass Balance Sensitivity
3.2. Summer Mass Balance Prediction
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Model Name | Modelling Centre | Reference |
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CanESM2 | Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis | Chylek et al., 2011 [23] |
CNRM-CM5 | Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques/Centre Européen de Recherche et Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique | Voldoire et al., 2012 [24] |
CSIRO-Mk3.6 | CSIRO and Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence (QCCCE) | Jeffrey et al., 2011 [25] |
GFDL-ESM2M | NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory | Dunne et al., 2012 [26] |
IPSL-CM5A-MR | Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace | Dufresne et al., 2013 [20] |
MIROC5 | Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute (The University of Tokyo), National Institute for Environmental Studies, and Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology | Watanabe et al., 2011 [27] |
MPI-ESM-LR | Max Planck Institute for Meteorology | Popke et al., 2013 [28] |
NorESM1-M | Norwegian Climate Centre | Bentsen et al., 2013 [29] |
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Taveirne, M.; Ekemar, L.; González Sánchez, B.; Axelsson, J.; Zhang, Q. Mass Balance Sensitivity and Future Projections of Rabots Glaciär, Sweden. Climate 2021, 9, 126. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli9080126
Taveirne M, Ekemar L, González Sánchez B, Axelsson J, Zhang Q. Mass Balance Sensitivity and Future Projections of Rabots Glaciär, Sweden. Climate. 2021; 9(8):126. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli9080126
Chicago/Turabian StyleTaveirne, Moon, Laura Ekemar, Berta González Sánchez, Josefine Axelsson, and Qiong Zhang. 2021. "Mass Balance Sensitivity and Future Projections of Rabots Glaciär, Sweden" Climate 9, no. 8: 126. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli9080126