Intercomparison of Simulated Arctic Snow on Sea Ice and Estimation of Snow-Related Feedbacks on Sea Ice

• Main Author: Bitz, Cecilia M
• Other Authors: WASHINGTON UNIV SEATTLE DEPT OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Snow; Ice and Permafrost; *SEA ICE; ARCTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Climate change; Ice; permafrost; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA600987; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA600987

Long-term Goals: The overarching goal of this project is to understand the impacts of climate change on Arctic sea ice related to the snow cover and to evaluate climate model projections of snow on Arctic sea ice. Objectives: 1) Evaluate the climatology of snow on Arctic sea ice among integrations submitted to the Fifth Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) that are evaluated for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment. Compare models with observations from a snow atlas derived from Russian drifting stations and the IceBridge project measurements. 2) Evaluate trends in the 20th century integrations and evaluate the strength of the snow-related sea ice loss mechanisms in the past from models. 3) Evaluate the snow depth in future scenarios in terms of the pattern, local-scale snow distribution, and trends. 4) Contribute writing and figures about sea ice projections to the Fifth Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5).