Measurements and Modeling of Arctic Atmospheric Processes During the Norwegian Young Sea Ice Field Campaign ...

• Main Author: Murphy, Sarah Yvette
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Washington State University 2024
• Subjects: atmospheric; climate; radiation; sea ice; Arctic; Clouds; Environmental Engineering; FOS Environmental engineering; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7273/000005016; https://rex.libraries.wsu.edu/esploro/outputs/doctoral/99901019534701842

The Arctic is warming more quickly than other regions, resulting in modifications to the surface energy budget. The Norwegian Young Sea Ice (N-ICE) field campaign took place in January through June 2015, monitoring key components of the surface energy budget. This was the first field campaign to take observations of the surface energy budget during the seasonal transition from winter to spring/summer since the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic (SHEBA) field campaign in 1997 through 1998. These observations are valuable not only due to the amount of time that has passed since the SHEBA field experiment but also because N-ICE took place on younger, thinner sea ice, and in a different part of the Arctic. This study uses data from the N-ICE experiment to recommend improvements to the Polar Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. The goals of this study are: 1) compare atmospheric measurements to models, 2) investigate model cloud microphysics and boundary layer parameterizations within WRF, 3) determine ...