Evaluation of Arctic land snow cover characteristics, surface albedo and temperature during the transition seasons from regional climate model simulations and satellite data
This paper evaluates the simulated Arctic land snow cover duration, snow water equivalent, snow cover fraction, surface albedo and land surface temperature in the regional climate model HIRHAM5 during 2008-2010, compared with various satellite and reanalysis data and one further regional climate mod...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:36518 2024-09-09T18:56:05+00:00 Evaluation of Arctic land snow cover characteristics, surface albedo and temperature during the transition seasons from regional climate model simulations and satellite data Zhou, Xu Matthes, Heidrun Rinke, Annette Klehmet, Katharina Heim, Birgit Dorn, Wolfgang Klaus, Daniel Dethloff, Klaus Rockel, Burkhardt 2014-09 application/pdf https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/36518/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/36518/1/604157.pdf http://www.hindawi.com/journals/amete/2014/604157/ https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.44318 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.44318.d001 unknown Hindawi Publishing Corporation https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/36518/1/604157.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.44318.d001 Zhou, X. , Matthes, H. orcid:0000-0001-9913-7696 , Rinke, A. orcid:0000-0002-6685-9219 , Klehmet, K. , Heim, B. orcid:0000-0003-2614-9391 , Dorn, W. orcid:0000-0002-2071-9472 , Klaus, D. , Dethloff, K. and Rockel, B. (2014) Evaluation of Arctic land snow cover characteristics, surface albedo and temperature during the transition seasons from regional climate model simulations and satellite data , Advances in Meteorology, 2014 , p. 604157 . doi:10.1155/2014/604157 <https://doi.org/10.1155/2014%2F604157> , hdl:10013/epic.44318 EPIC3Advances in Meteorology, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014, pp. 604157, ISSN: 1687-9309 Article isiRev 2014 ftawi https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/604157 2024-06-24T04:09:53Z This paper evaluates the simulated Arctic land snow cover duration, snow water equivalent, snow cover fraction, surface albedo and land surface temperature in the regional climate model HIRHAM5 during 2008-2010, compared with various satellite and reanalysis data and one further regional climate model (COSMO-CLM). HIRHAM5 shows a general agreement in the spatial patterns and annual course of these variables, although distinct biases for specific regions and months are obvious. The most prominent biases occur for east Siberian deciduous forest albedo, which is overestimated in the simulation for snow covered conditions in spring. This may be caused by the simplified albedo parameterization (e.g. non-consideration of different forest types and neglecting the effect of fallen leaves and branches on snow for deciduous tree forest). The land surface temperature biases mirror the albedo biases in their spatial and temporal structures. The snow cover fraction and albedo biases can explain the simulated land surface temperature bias of ca. -3 °C over the Siberian forest area in spring. Article in Journal/Newspaper albedo Arctic Arctic Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) Arctic Advances in Meteorology 2014 1 15 |
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This paper evaluates the simulated Arctic land snow cover duration, snow water equivalent, snow cover fraction, surface albedo and land surface temperature in the regional climate model HIRHAM5 during 2008-2010, compared with various satellite and reanalysis data and one further regional climate model (COSMO-CLM). HIRHAM5 shows a general agreement in the spatial patterns and annual course of these variables, although distinct biases for specific regions and months are obvious. The most prominent biases occur for east Siberian deciduous forest albedo, which is overestimated in the simulation for snow covered conditions in spring. This may be caused by the simplified albedo parameterization (e.g. non-consideration of different forest types and neglecting the effect of fallen leaves and branches on snow for deciduous tree forest). The land surface temperature biases mirror the albedo biases in their spatial and temporal structures. The snow cover fraction and albedo biases can explain the simulated land surface temperature bias of ca. -3 °C over the Siberian forest area in spring. |
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Zhou, Xu Matthes, Heidrun Rinke, Annette Klehmet, Katharina Heim, Birgit Dorn, Wolfgang Klaus, Daniel Dethloff, Klaus Rockel, Burkhardt Evaluation of Arctic land snow cover characteristics, surface albedo and temperature during the transition seasons from regional climate model simulations and satellite data |
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Zhou, Xu Matthes, Heidrun Rinke, Annette Klehmet, Katharina Heim, Birgit Dorn, Wolfgang Klaus, Daniel Dethloff, Klaus Rockel, Burkhardt |
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Evaluation of Arctic land snow cover characteristics, surface albedo and temperature during the transition seasons from regional climate model simulations and satellite data |
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Evaluation of Arctic land snow cover characteristics, surface albedo and temperature during the transition seasons from regional climate model simulations and satellite data |
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Evaluation of Arctic land snow cover characteristics, surface albedo and temperature during the transition seasons from regional climate model simulations and satellite data |
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Evaluation of Arctic land snow cover characteristics, surface albedo and temperature during the transition seasons from regional climate model simulations and satellite data |
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Evaluation of Arctic land snow cover characteristics, surface albedo and temperature during the transition seasons from regional climate model simulations and satellite data |
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evaluation of arctic land snow cover characteristics, surface albedo and temperature during the transition seasons from regional climate model simulations and satellite data |
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https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/36518/1/604157.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.44318.d001 Zhou, X. , Matthes, H. orcid:0000-0001-9913-7696 , Rinke, A. orcid:0000-0002-6685-9219 , Klehmet, K. , Heim, B. orcid:0000-0003-2614-9391 , Dorn, W. orcid:0000-0002-2071-9472 , Klaus, D. , Dethloff, K. and Rockel, B. (2014) Evaluation of Arctic land snow cover characteristics, surface albedo and temperature during the transition seasons from regional climate model simulations and satellite data , Advances in Meteorology, 2014 , p. 604157 . doi:10.1155/2014/604157 <https://doi.org/10.1155/2014%2F604157> , hdl:10013/epic.44318 |
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