Development and testing of polar Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. Part I: Greenland ice sheet meteorology

• Main Authors: David H. Bromwich, Keith M. Hines, Le-sheng Bai
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Greenland; Midwinter; albedo; ice pack; Ice Sheet; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.669.377; http://polarmet.osu.edu/PMG_publications/bromwich_hines_jgr_2009.pdf

been developed for polar applications. The model known as ‘‘Polar WRF’ ’ is tested over the Arctic Ocean with a western Arctic grid using 25-km resolution. The model is based upon WRF version 2.2, with improvements to the Noah land surface model and the snowpack treatment. The ocean surface treatmen...