This paper tries to identify one of the reasons for the poor land skin temperature simulated by a climate model over Greenland. It first compares ICEsat surface height measurements over Greenland with those used by the model and reveals that the surface height of Greenland prescribed in the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Community Climate System Model/Community Land Model versi...

River discharge influences ocean dynamics and biogeochemistry. Due to the lack of a systematic, up-to-date global measurement network for river discharge, models typically use seasonal climatology as forcing. This compromises simulated nonseasonal variation (the deviation from climatology) near plumes undermines their usefulness interdisciplinary research. Recently, reanalysis-based daily varyi...