Arctic Ocean freshwater: How robust are model simulations?
The Arctic freshwater (FW) has been the focus of many modeling studies, due to the potential impact of Arctic FW on the deep water formation in the North Atlantic. A comparison of the hindcasts from ten ocean-sea ice models shows that the simulation of the Arctic FW budget is quite different in the...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:30977 2024-09-15T17:51:40+00:00 Arctic Ocean freshwater: How robust are model simulations? Jahn, A. Aksenov, Y. de Cuevas, B. de Steur, L. Haekkinen, S. Hansen, E. Herbaut, C. Houssais, M.-N. Karcher, Michael Kauker, Frank Lique, C. Nguyen, A. Pemberton, P. Worthen, D. Zhang, J. 2012 application/pdf https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/30977/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/30977/1/JGR_Jahn_etal_2012.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39854 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39854.d001 unknown AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/30977/1/JGR_Jahn_etal_2012.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39854.d001 Jahn, A. , Aksenov, Y. , de Cuevas, B. , de Steur, L. , Haekkinen, S. , Hansen, E. , Herbaut, C. , Houssais, M. N. , Karcher, M. orcid:0000-0002-9587-811X , Kauker, F. orcid:0000-0002-7976-3005 , Lique, C. , Nguyen, A. , Pemberton, P. , Worthen, D. and Zhang, J. (2012) Arctic Ocean freshwater: How robust are model simulations? , Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 117 (C00D16) . doi:10.1029/2012JC007907 <https://doi.org/10.1029/2012JC007907> , hdl:10013/epic.39854 EPIC3Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION, 117(C00D16), ISSN: 0148-0227 Article isiRev 2012 ftawi 2024-06-24T04:05:07Z The Arctic freshwater (FW) has been the focus of many modeling studies, due to the potential impact of Arctic FW on the deep water formation in the North Atlantic. A comparison of the hindcasts from ten ocean-sea ice models shows that the simulation of the Arctic FW budget is quite different in the investigated models. While they agree on the general sink and source terms of the Arctic FW budget, the long-term means as well as the variability of the FW export vary among models. The best model-to-model agreement is found for the interannual and seasonal variability of the solid FW export and the solid FW storage, which also agree well with observations. For the interannual and seasonal variability of the liquid FW export, the agreement among models is better for the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (CAA) than for Fram Strait. The reason for this is that models are more consistent in simulating volume flux anomalies than salinity anomalies and volume-flux anomalies dominate the liquid FW export variability in the CAA but not in Fram Strait. The seasonal cycle of the liquid FW export generally shows a better agreement among models than the interannual variability, and compared to observations the models capture the seasonality of the liquid FW export rather well. In order to improve future simulations of the Arctic FW budget, the simulation of the salinity field needs to be improved, so that model results on the variability of the liquid FW export and storage become more robust. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Archipelago Arctic Ocean Canadian Arctic Archipelago Fram Strait North Atlantic Sea ice Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 117 C8 n/a n/a |
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The Arctic freshwater (FW) has been the focus of many modeling studies, due to the potential impact of Arctic FW on the deep water formation in the North Atlantic. A comparison of the hindcasts from ten ocean-sea ice models shows that the simulation of the Arctic FW budget is quite different in the investigated models. While they agree on the general sink and source terms of the Arctic FW budget, the long-term means as well as the variability of the FW export vary among models. The best model-to-model agreement is found for the interannual and seasonal variability of the solid FW export and the solid FW storage, which also agree well with observations. For the interannual and seasonal variability of the liquid FW export, the agreement among models is better for the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (CAA) than for Fram Strait. The reason for this is that models are more consistent in simulating volume flux anomalies than salinity anomalies and volume-flux anomalies dominate the liquid FW export variability in the CAA but not in Fram Strait. The seasonal cycle of the liquid FW export generally shows a better agreement among models than the interannual variability, and compared to observations the models capture the seasonality of the liquid FW export rather well. In order to improve future simulations of the Arctic FW budget, the simulation of the salinity field needs to be improved, so that model results on the variability of the liquid FW export and storage become more robust. |
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Jahn, A. Aksenov, Y. de Cuevas, B. de Steur, L. Haekkinen, S. Hansen, E. Herbaut, C. Houssais, M.-N. Karcher, Michael Kauker, Frank Lique, C. Nguyen, A. Pemberton, P. Worthen, D. Zhang, J. |
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Arctic Ocean freshwater: How robust are model simulations? |
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