Does bare-ice subsurface water storage explain over-prediction of Greenland Ice Sheet ablation zone runoff and ice surface lowering by climate models?


Matthew G Cooper1, Laurence C Smith2, Asa K Rennermalm3, Dirk van As4, Willem Jan van de Berg5, Jason Box6, Michiel R van den Broeke5, Vena W. Chu7, Sarah W Cooley8, Richard I Cullather9, Colin J Gleason10, Alun Hubbard11, Charles Mark Kershner12, Peter L Langen13, Sasha Z Leidman14, Clément Miège15, Samiah Moustafa16, Rohi Muthyala14, Brice Noel5, Brandon T Overstreet17, Lincoln H H Pitcher18, Johnny Ryan19, Marco Tedesco20 and Kang Yang21, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences (DEEPS), Providence, United States, (3)Rutgers University, Geography, New Brunswick, United States, (4)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, København K, Denmark, (5)Utrecht University, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, (6)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark, (7)University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (8)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States, (10)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States, (11)Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom, (12)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, (13)Aarhus University, Department of Environmental Sciences, Aarhus C, Denmark, (14)Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Geography, New Brunswick, United States, (15)Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, United States, (16)Brown University, Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Providence, RI, United States, (17)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (18)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (19)University of Oregon, Eugene, United States, (20)Columbia University, Palisades, United States, (21)Nanjing University, Geography, Nanjing, China