Effect of an improved physically-based simulation of land ice albedo on Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance and arctic regional climate in the ModelE GCM
Patrick M Alexander1,2, Marco Tedesco2,3, Elizabeth Fischer4, Allegra N. LeGrande5, Xavier Fettweis6, Mark Flanner7, Sophie Nowicki8 and Gavin A Schmidt2, (1)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)NASA / GISS, Teaneck, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (6)University of Liège, Département de Géographie, Liège, Belgium, (7)University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (8)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
