High-resolution Modelling of Ocean and Sea-ice Conditions in the Canadian Arctic Coastal Waters

• Main Authors: Youyu Lu, Shannon Nudds, Frederic Dupont, Michael Dunphy, Charles Hannah, Simon Prinsenberg
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: KEY WORDS; Arctic Ocean; high-resolution model; seasonal variation; sea-ice; hydrography; Arctic; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Arctic Archipelago; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.455.1882; http://www.bio.gc.ca/science/research-recherche/ocean/ice-glace/documents/lu01.pdf

An ocean and sea-ice model for the Arctic Ocean, with a nested high-resolution sub-model for the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, has been developed based on the Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean (NEMO). The horizontal resolution is ~18 km for the pan-Arctic domain and ~6 km for the nested region. Initial tests are carried out using a climatology of surface forcing. The simulated seasonal variations of sea-ice, hydrography and ocean circulation are compared with available observations, demonstrating the potential skill of the model in simulating the variations occurring in the Arctic Ocean.