Publications and communications of Christoph Kittel

Coulon, V., Klose, A. K., Kittel, C., Edwards, T., Turner, F., Winkelmann, R., & Pattyn, F. (12 February 2024). Disentangling the drivers of future Antarctic ice loss with a historically calibrated ice-sheet model. The Cryosphere, 18 (2), 653 - 681. doi:10.5194/tc-18-653-2024

Delhasse, A., Beckmann, J., Kittel, C., & Fettweis, X. (12 February 2024). Coupling MAR (Modèle Atmosphérique Régional) with PISM (Parallel Ice Sheet Model) mitigates the positive melt–elevation feedback. The Cryosphere, 18 (2), 633-651. doi:10.5194/tc-18-633-2024

Wille, J., Alexander, S., Amory, C., Baiman, R., Barthélemy, L., Bergstrom, D., Berne, A., Binder, H., Blanchet, J., Bozkurt, D., Bracegirdle, T., Casado, M., Choi, T., Clem, K., Codron, F., Datta, R., Battista, S., Favier, V., Francis, D., ... Zou, X. (2023). The extraordinary March 2022 East Antarctica "heat" wave. Part II: impacts on the Antarctic ice sheet. Journal of Climate. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0176.1

Wille, J., Alexander, S., Amory, C., Baiman, R., Barthélemy, L., Bergstrom, D., Berne, A., Binder, H., Blanchet, J., Bozkurt, D., Bracegirdle, T., Casado, M., Choi, T., Clem, K., Codron, F., Datta, R., Battista, S., Favier, V., Francis, D., ... Zou, X. (2023). The extraordinary March 2022 East Antarctica "heat" wave. Part I: observations and meteorological drivers. Journal of Climate. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0175.1

Maure, D., Kittel, C., Lambin, C., Delhasse, A., & Fettweis, X. (06 November 2023). Spatially heterogeneous effect of climate warming on the Arctic land ice. The Cryosphere, 17 (11), 4645-4659. doi:10.5194/tc-17-4645-2023

Dethinne, T., Glaude, Q., Picard, G., Kittel, C., Alexander, P., Orban, A., & Fettweis, X. (06 October 2023). Sensitivity of the MAR regional climate model snowpack to the parameterization of the assimilation of satellite-derived wet-snow masks on the Antarctic Peninsula. The Cryosphere, 17 (10), 4267-4288. doi:10.5194/tc-17-4267-2023

Maure, D., Kittel, C., Lambin, C., & Fettweis, X. (15 May 2023). High resolution atmospheric and oceanic modelling over Antarctica: a coupling interface to study sea-ice processes [Poster presentation]. EGU General Assembly 2023. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu23-16638

Lambin, C., Maure, D., Kittel, C., & Fettweis, X. (25 April 2023). Towards a high-resolution MAR-NEMO coupling to explore atmosphere-ocean-ice interactions in the Arctic [Poster presentation]. EGU 2023, Vienne, Austria.

Otosaka, I. N., Shepherd, A., Ivins, E. R., Schlegel, N.-J., Amory, C., van den Broeke, M. R., Horwath, M., Joughin, I., King, M. D., Krinner, G., Nowicki, S., Payne, A. J., Rignot, E., Scambos, T., Simon, K. M., Smith, B. E., Sørensen, L. S., Velicogna, I., Whitehouse, P. L., ... Wouters, B. (20 April 2023). Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020. Earth System Science Data, 15 (4), 1597-1616. doi:10.5194/essd-15-1597-2023

Kittel, C. (2023). Projections du bilan de masse en surface en Antarctique à l’horizon 2100. Climatologie, 21, 3. doi:10.1051/climat/202321003

Jourdain, N., Mathiot, P., Burgard, C., Caillet, J., & Kittel, C. (16 November 2022). Ice Shelf Basal Melt Rates in the Amundsen Sea at the End of the 21st Century. Geophysical Research Letters, 49 (22). doi:10.1029/2022GL100629

Diez-Sierra, J., Iturbide, M., Gutiérrez, J. M., Fernández, J., Milovac, J., Cofiño, A. S., Cimadevilla, E., Nikulin, G., Levavasseur, G., Kjellström, E., Bülow, K., Horányi, A., Brookshaw, A., García-Díez, M., Pérez, A., Baño-Medina, J., Ahrens, B., Alias, A., Ashfaq, M., ... Zittis, G. (2022). The worldwide C3S CORDEX grand ensemble: A major contribution to assess regional climate change in the IPCC AR6 Atlas. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. doi:10.1175/bams-d-22-0111.1

Carter, J., Leeson, A., Orr, A., Kittel, C., & van Wessem, J. M. (23 September 2022). Variability in Antarctic surface climatology across regional climate models and reanalysis datasets. The Cryosphere, 16 (9), 3815-3841. doi:10.5194/tc-16-3815-2022

Lambin, C., Fettweis, X., Kittel, C., Fonder, M., & Ernst, D. (2022). Assessment of future wind speed and wind power changes over South Greenland using the MAR regional climate model. International Journal of Climatology. doi:10.1002/joc.7795

Kittel, C., Amory, C., Hofer, S., Agosta, C., Jourdain, N. C., Gilbert, E., Le Toumelin, L., Vignon, É., Gallée, H., & Fettweis, X. (07 July 2022). Clouds drive differences in future surface melt over the Antarctic ice shelves. The Cryosphere, 16 (7), 2655-2669. doi:10.5194/tc-16-2655-2022

Huot, P.-V., Kittel, C., Fichefet, T., Jourdain, N. C., & Fettweis, X. (July 2022). Effects of ocean mesoscale eddies on atmosphere–sea ice–ocean interactions off Adélie Land, East Antarctica. Climate Dynamics, 59 (1-2), 41 - 60. doi:10.1007/s00382-021-06115-x

Dethinne, T., Kittel, C., Glaude, Q., Orban, A., & Fettweis, X. (26 May 2022). Interest of the Assimilation of Surface Melt Extent Derived From Passive and Active Microwave Satellites Into the Regional Climate Model MAR Over the Antarctic Peninsula [Paper presentation]. EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienne, Austria. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu22-5913

Lambin, C., Fettweis, X., Kittel, C., Fonder, M., & Ernst, D. (25 May 2022). Long term wind speed and wind power change analysis over South Greenland using the regional climate model MAR [Paper presentation]. EGU 2022.

Kittel, C. (May 2022). Clouds increase uncertainty in surface melt projections over the Antarctic ice shelve [Paper presentation]. EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienne, Austria. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu22-2873

Kittel, C., Fettweis, X., Picard G., & Gourmelen N. (May 2022). Assimilation of satellite-derived melt extent increases melt simulated by MAR over the Amundsen sector (West Antarctica). Bulletin de la Société Géographique de Liège, 78 (2022/1). doi:10.25518/0770-7576.6616

Wille, J. D., Favier, V., Jourdain, N. C., Kittel, C., Turton, J. V., Agosta, C., Gorodetskaya, I. V., Picard, G., Codron, F., Santos, C. L.-D., Amory, C., Fettweis, X., Blanchet, J., Jomelli, V., & Berchet, A. (14 April 2022). Intense atmospheric rivers can weaken ice shelf stability at the Antarctic Peninsula. Communications Earth and Environment, 3 (1). doi:10.1038/s43247-022-00422-9

Hansen, N., Simonsen, S. B., Boberg, F., Kittel, C., Orr, A., Souverijns, N., Van Wessem, J. M., & Mottram, R. (25 February 2022). Brief communication: Impact of common ice mask in surface mass balance estimates over the Antarctic ice sheet. The Cryosphere, 16 (2), 711 - 718. doi:10.5194/tc-16-711-2022

Pelletier, C., Fichefet, T., Goose, H., Haubner, K., Helsen, S., Huot, P. V., Kittel, C., Klein, F., Le clec'h, S., van Lipzig, N. P. M., Marchi, S., Massonnet, F., Mathiot, P., Moravveji, E., Moreno-Chamarro, E., Ortega, P., Pattyn, F., Souverijns, N., Van Achter, G., ... Zipf, L. (2022). PARASO, a circum-Antarctic fully coupled ice-sheet–ocean–sea-ice–atmosphere–land model involving f.ETISh1.7, NEMO3.6, LIM3.6, COSMO5.0 and CLM4.5. The Cryosphere. doi:10.5194/gmd-15-553-2022

Dethinne, T., Glaude, Q., Amory, C., Kittel, C., & Fettweis, X. (2022). Comparison Between Surface Melt Estimation From Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar and a Regional Climate Model. Case Study Over the Roi Baudouin Ice Shelf, East Antarctica. Bulletin de la Société Géographique de Liège, 78 (2022), 113-122. doi:10.25518/0770-7576.6644

Huot, P.-V., Kittel, C., Fichefet, T., Jourdain, N. C., & Fettweis, X. (2022). Efects of ocean mesoscale eddies on atmosphere–sea ice–ocean interactions of Adélie Land, East Antarctica. Climate Dynamics.

Pohl, B., Favier, V., Wille, J., Udy, D. G., Vance, T. R., Pergaud, J., Dutrievoz, N., Blanchet, J., Kittel, C., Amory, C., Krinner, G., & Codron, F. (2021). Relationship Between Weather Regimes and Atmospheric Rivers in East Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research. Atmospheres. doi:10.1029/2021JD035294

Crockart, C. K., Vance, T. R., Fraser, A. D., Abram, N. J., Criscitiello, A. S., Curran, M. A. J., Favier, V., Gallant, A. J. E., Kittel, C., Kjaer, H. A., Klekociuk, A. R., Jong, L. M., Moy, A. D., Plummer, C. T., Vallelonga, P. T., Wille, J., & Zhang, L. (2021). El Niño–Southern Oscillation signal in a new East Antarctic ice core, Mount Brown South. Climate of the Past. doi:10.5194/cp-17-1795-2021

Mottram, R., Hansen, N., Kittel, C., van Wessem, M., Agosta, C., Amory, C., Boberg, F., van de Berg, W. J., Fettweis, X., Gossart, A., van Lipzig, N., van Meijgaard, E., Orr, A., Phillips, T., Webster, S., Simonsen, S., & Souverijns, N. (17 August 2021). What is the surface mass balance of Antarctica? An intercomparison of regional climate model estimates. The Cryosphere, 15, 3751–3784. doi:10.5194/tc-15-3751-2021

Le Toumelin, L., Amory, C., Favier, V., Kittel, C., Hofer, S., Fettweis, X., Gallée, H., & Kayetha, V. (2021). Sensitivity of the surface energy budget to drifting snow as simulated by MAR in coastal Adelie Land, Antarctica. The Cryosphere, (3595–3614), 15. doi:10.5194/tc-15-3595-2021

Amory, C., Kittel, C., Le Toumelin, L., Agosta, C., Delhasse, A., Favier, V., & Fettweis, X. (2021). Performance of MAR (v3.11) in simulating the drifting-snow climate and surface mass balance of Adélie Land, East Antarctica. Geoscientific Model Development. doi:10.5194/gmd-14-3487-2021

Fettweis, X., Hofer, S., Séférian, R., Amory, C., Delhasse, A., Doutreloup, S., Kittel, C., Lang, C., Van Bever, J., Veillon, F., & Irvine, P. (June 2021). Brief Communication: Reduction of the future Greenland ice sheet surface melt with the help of solar geoengineering. The Cryosphere, 15, 3013–3019. doi:10.5194/tc-15-3013-2021

Delhasse, A., Hanna, E., Kittel, C., & Fettweis, X. (2021). Brief communication: CMIP6 does not suggest any atmospheric blocking increase in summer over Greenland by 2100. International Journal of Climatology. doi:10.1002/joc.6977

Donat-Magnin, M., Jourdain, N. C., Kittel, C., Agosta, C., Amory, C., Gallée, H., Krinner, G., & Chekki, M. (2021). Future surface mass balance and surface melt in the Amundsen sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The Cryosphere, 15, 571-593. doi:10.5194/tc-15-571-2021

Gilbert, E., & Kittel, C. (2021). Surface melt and runoff on Antarctic ice shelves at 1.5°C, 2°C and 4°C of future warming. Geophysical Research Letters. doi:10.1029/2020GL091733

Hofer, S., Amory, C., Kittel, C., Carlsen, T., Le Toumelin, L., & Storelvmo, T. (2021). The contribution of drifting snow to cloud properties and the atmospheric radiative budget over Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters. doi:10.1029/2021GL094967

Huot, P.-V., Fichefet, T., Jourdain, N. C., Mathiot, P., Rousset, C., Kittel, C., & Fettweis, X. (2021). Influence of ocean tides and ice shelves on ocean–ice interactions and dense shelf water formation in the D’Urville Sea, Antarctica. Ocean Modelling, 162. doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2021.101794

Huot, P.-V., Kittel, C., Fichefet, T., Jourdain, N. C., Sterlin, J., & Fettweis, X. (2021). Effects of the atmospheric forcing resolution on simulated sea ice and polynyas off Adelie Land, East Antarctica. Ocean Modelling. doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2021.101901

Kittel, C. (2021). Present and future sensitivity of the Antarctic surface mass balance to oceanic and atmospheric forcings: insights with the regional climate model MAR [Doctoral thesis, ULiège - Université de Liège]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/258491

Kittel, C., Amory, C., Agosta, C., Jourdain, N. C., Hofer, S., Delhasse, A., Doutreloup, S., Huot, P.-V., Lang, C., Fichefet, T., & Fettweis, X. (2021). Diverging future surface mass balance between the Antarctic ice shelves and grounded ice sheet. The Cryosphere, 15 (3), 1215-1236. doi:10.5194/tc-15-1215-2021

Verjans, V., Leeson, A. A., McMillan, M., Stevens, C. M., van Wessem, J. M., van de Berg, W. J., Kittel, C., Amory, C., Fettweis, X., Hansen, N., Boberg, F., & Mottram, R. (2021). Uncertainty in East Antarctic firn thickness constrained using a model ensemble approach. Geophysical Research Letters. doi:10.1029/2020GL092060

Wille, J. D., Favier, V., Gorodestkaya, I. V., Agosta, C., Kittel, C., Chowdhry Beeman, J., Jourdain, N. C., Lenaerts, J. T. M., & Codron, F. (2021). Antarctic Atmospheric River Clmatology and Precipitation Impacts. Journal of Geophysical Research. Atmospheres. doi:10.1029/2020JD033788

Hofer, S., Lang, C., Amory, C., Kittel, C., Delhasse, A., Tedstone, A., & Fettweis, X. (15 December 2020). Greater Greenland Ice Sheet contribution to global sea level rise in CMIP6. Nature Communications, 11, 6289. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-20011-8

Fettweis, X., Hofer, S., Krebs-Kanzow, U., Amory, C., Aoki, T., Berends, C., Born, A., Box, J., Delhasse, A., Fujita, K., Gierz, P., Goelzer, H., Hanna, E., Hashimoto, A., Huybrechts, P., Kapsch, M., King, M., Kittel, C., Lang, C., ... Zolles, T. (11 November 2020). GrSMBMIP: intercomparison of the modelled 1980–2012 surface mass balance over the Greenland Ice Sheet. The Cryosphere, 14, 3935–3958. doi:10.5194/tc-14-3935-2020

Glaude, Q., Glaude, Q., & Kittel, C. (05 May 2020). Comparison Between Surface Melt Days Estimation from a Regional Climate Model and Near-Daily Synthetic Aperture Radar Backscattering [Paper presentation]. EGU Sharing Geosciences Online.

Delhasse, A., Kittel, C., Amory, C., Hofer, S., van As, D., S. Fausto, R., & Fettweis, X. (12 March 2020). Brief communication: Evaluation of the near-surface climate in ERA5 over the Greenland Ice Sheet. The Cryosphere, 14, 957–965. doi:10.5194/tc-14-957-2020

Donat-Magnin, M., Jourdain, N. C., Gallée, H., Amory, C., Kittel, C., Fettweis, X., Wille, J. D., Favier, V., Drira, A., & Agosta, C. (2020). Interannual variability of summer surface mass balance and surface melting in the Amundsen sector, West Antarctica. The Cryosphere. doi:10.5194/tc-14-229-2020

Kittel, C. (December 2019). Projection of the Antarctic surface mass balance by 2100 using MAR [Poster presentation]. AGU Fall Meeting 2019, San Francisco, United States - California.

Lippl, S., Friedl, P., Kittel, C., Marinsek, S., Seehaus, T. C., & Braun, M. H. (2019). Spatial and temporal variability of Glacier surface velocities and outlet areas on James Ross island, northern Antarctic Peninsula. Geosciences. doi:10.3390/geosciences9090374

Doutreloup, S., Kittel, C., Wyard, C., Belleflamme, A., Amory, C., Erpicum, M., & Fettweis, X. (12 June 2019). Precipitation Evolution over Belgium by 2100 and Sensitivity to Convective Schemes Using the Regional Climate Model MAR. Atmosphere, 10 (321). doi:10.3390/atmos10060321

Kittel, C. (10 May 2019). Added value of a regional climate model (MAR) for simulating the current surface mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet compared to a general circulation model (ACCESS1.3) [Paper presentation]. Antarctic Clilmate Symposium, Bruxelles, Belgium.

Delhasse, A., Kittel, C., Amory, C., & Fettweis, X. (12 April 2019). Evaluation of the near-surface climate of the Greenland ice sheet as modelled by the climate model MAR and the ERA-Interim, ERA5 and Arctic System reanalyses [Paper presentation]. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2019, Vienna, Austria.

Agosta, C., Amory, C., Kittel, C., Orsi, A., Favier, V., Gallée, H., van den Broeke, M. R., Lenearts, J. T. M., van Wessem, J. M., van de Berg, W. J., & Fettweis, X. (2019). Estimation of the Antarctic surface mass balance using the regional climate model MAR (1979–2015) and identification of dominant processes. The Cryosphere. doi:10.5194/tc-13-281-2019

Doutreloup, S., Wyard, C., Amory, C., Kittel, C., Erpicum, M., & Fettweis, X. (17 January 2019). Sensitivity to Convective Schemes on Precipitation Simulated by the Regional Climate Model MAR over Belgium (1987–2017). Atmosphere, 10 (1), 34. doi:10.3390/atmos10010034

Amory, C., & Kittel, C. (2019). Brief communication: Rare ambient saturation during drifting snow occurrences at a coastal location of East Antarctic. The Cryosphere. doi:10.5194/tc-13-3405-2019

Kittel, C., Amory, C., Agosta, C., & Fettweis, X. (2019). Added value of the regional climate model MAR for simulating the surface mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet compared to a global climate model (ACCESS1.3) [Poster presentation]. EGU General Assembly 2019, Vienna, Austria.

Lambert, M., Kittel, C., Damseaux, A., & Fettweis, X. (2019). Sensitivity of arctic surface temperatures to sea ice thickness changes using the regional climate model mar. Bulletin de la Société Géographique de Liège, 2, 131-137. doi:10.25518/0770-7576.5968

Kittel, C., Amory, C., Agosta, C., Delhasse, A., Doutreloup, S., Huot, P.-V., Wyard, C., Fichefet, T., & Fettweis, X. (07 December 2018). Sensitivity of the current Antarctic surface mass balance to sea surface conditions using MAR. The Cryosphere, 12, 3827–3839. doi:10.5194/tc-12-3827-2018

Delhasse, A., Fettweis, X., Kittel, C., Amory, C., & Agosta, C. (2018). Brief communication: Impact of the recent atmospheric circulation change in summer on the future surface mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The Cryosphere. doi:10.5194/tc-12-3409-2018

Fettweis, X., Delhasse, A., Agosta, C., Amory, C., Lang, C., & Kittel, C. (22 June 2018). Interest of a Regional Climate Model for doing future projections over the Greenland Ice Sheet [Paper presentation]. Polar 2018, Switzerland.

Kittel, C., Amory, C., Agosta, C., Favier, V., & Fettweis, X. (20 June 2018). Modelling the impact of drifting snow on the surface mass balance [Paper presentation]. POLAR 2018, Davos, Switzerland.

Delhasse, A., Fettweis, X., Kittel, C., & Amory, C. (11 April 2018). Influence of the recent circulation change in summer on future surface mass balance of Greenland ice sheet [Paper presentation]. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018, Vienna, Austria.

Amory, C., Kittel, C., & Fettweis, X. (15 December 2017). Observations and modelling od drifting snow occurrences in coastal East Antarctica [Paper presentation]. AGU fall meeting 2017.

Kittel, C., Amory, C., Agosta, C., & Fettweis, X. (15 December 2017). Sensitivity of the Antarctic surface mass balance to oceanic perturbations [Poster presentation]. AGU Fall meeting 2017, New-Orleans, United States - Louisiana.

Amory, C., Kittel, C., Delhasse, A., Agosta, C., & Fettweis, X. (10 December 2017). Interests of using the RCM MAR to downscale CMIP6 outputs [Paper presentation]. ISMIP6 workshop.

Kittel, C. (17 November 2017). Coupling an atmospheric model to an ocean model to study air-ice-ocean interactions in Antarctica: challenges and applications [Paper presentation]. 7th Belgium Geography Day, Liège, Belgium.

Kittel, C. (14 September 2017). Sensitivity of the Antarctic surface mass balance to oceanic perturbations [Paper presentation]. The 2d MAR workshop, Grenoble, France.

Fettweis, X., Box, J., Agosta, C., Amory, C., Kittel, C., Lang, C., van As, D., Machguth, H., & Gallée, H. (25 April 2017). Reconstructions of the 1900–2015 Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance using the regional climate MAR model. The Cryosphere, 11, 1015-1033. doi:10.5194/tc-11-1015-2017

Kittel, C. (09 November 2016). Bilan de masse en surface à haute résolution sur le Groenland à l'aide du modèle MAR et d'une technique de régionalisation couplée [Paper presentation]. Conférence "Nouveaux diplômés en Géographie".

Kittel, C., Lang, C., Agosta, C., Prignon, M., Fettweis, X., & Erpicum, M. (20 April 2016). Very high resolution surface mass balance over Greenland modeled by the regional climate model MAR with a downscaling technique [Poster presentation]. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2016, Vienna, Austria.