This accumulation dataset is an output from the RACMO regional model. The data were provided as lat-lon point measurements, these were reprojected onto the polar stereographic grid and interpolated onto the 5 km grid using spline interpolation.

The unit of the data is meters in ice equivalent per year.

Originators: http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.734145

Publisher: Le Brocq, A. M., Payne, A. J., and Vieli, A.: An improved Antarctic dataset for high resolution numerical ice sheet models (ALBMAP v1), Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 2, 247-260, doi:10.5194/essd-2-247-2010, 2010.

Publication date: 2010

References: Van de Berg, W. J., van den Broeke, M. R., and van Meijgaard, E.: Reassessment of the Antarctic surface mass balance using calibrated output of a regional atmospheric climate model, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D11104, doi:10.1029/2005JD006495, 2006.

Editors
Glaciology

Catherine Ritz
catherine.ritz@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

Anne LeBrocq
A.LeBrocq@exeter.ac.uk