Evaluation of simulated sea-ice concentrations from sea-ice/ ocean models using satellite data and polynya classification methods
Sea-ice concentrations in the Laptev Sea simulated by the coupled North Atlantic—Arctic Ocean—Sea-Ice Model and Finite Element Sea-Ice Ocean Model are evaluated using sea-ice concentrations from Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer—Earth Observing System satellite data and a polynya classification...
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ftjpolarres:oai:journals.openacademia.net:article/3066 2023-05-15T14:55:52+02:00 Evaluation of simulated sea-ice concentrations from sea-ice/ ocean models using satellite data and polynya classification methods Adams, Susanne Willmes, Sascha Heinemann, Günther Rozman, Polona Timmermann, Ralph Schröder, David 2011-05-09 application/pdf text/html application/x-zip-compressed text/xml https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3066 https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v30i0.7124 eng eng Norwegian Polar Institute https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3066/pdf_134 https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3066/html_130 https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3066/6973 https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3066/xml_130 https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3066 doi:10.3402/polar.v30i0.7124 Copyright (c) 2018 Polar Research Polar Research; Vol 30 (2011) 1751-8369 polynyas sea ice sea-ice/ocean models remote sensing info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article 2011 ftjpolarres https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v30i0.7124 2021-11-11T19:13:37Z Sea-ice concentrations in the Laptev Sea simulated by the coupled North Atlantic—Arctic Ocean—Sea-Ice Model and Finite Element Sea-Ice Ocean Model are evaluated using sea-ice concentrations from Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer—Earth Observing System satellite data and a polynya classification method for winter 2007/08. While developed to simulate largescale sea-ice conditions, both models are analysed here in terms of polynya simulation. The main modification of both models in this study is the implementation of a landfast-ice mask. Simulated sea-ice fields from different model runs are compared with emphasis placed on the impact of this prescribed landfast-ice mask. We demonstrate that sea-ice models are not able to simulate flaw polynyas realistically when used without fast-ice description. Our investigations indicate that without landfast ice and with coarse horizontal resolution the models overestimate the fraction of open water in the polynya. This is not because a realistic polynya appears but due to a larger-scale reduction of ice concentrations and smoothed ice-concentration fields. After implementation of a landfast-ice mask, the polynya location is realistically simulated but the total open-water area is still overestimated in most cases. The study shows that the fast-ice parameterization is essential for model improvements. However, further improvements are necessary in order to progress from the simulation of large-scale features in the Arctic towards a more detailed simulation of smaller-scaled features (here polynyas) in an Arctic shelf sea.Keywords: Polynyas; sea ice; sea-ice/ocean models; remote sensing(Published: 9 May 2011)Citation: Polar Research 2011, 30, 7124, DOI:10.3402/polar.v30i0.7124 Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ocean Atlantic Arctic Atlantic-Arctic laptev Laptev Sea North Atlantic Polar Research Sea ice Polar Research (E-Journal) Arctic Arctic Ocean Laptev Sea Polar Research 30 1 7124 |
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Sea-ice concentrations in the Laptev Sea simulated by the coupled North Atlantic—Arctic Ocean—Sea-Ice Model and Finite Element Sea-Ice Ocean Model are evaluated using sea-ice concentrations from Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer—Earth Observing System satellite data and a polynya classification method for winter 2007/08. While developed to simulate largescale sea-ice conditions, both models are analysed here in terms of polynya simulation. The main modification of both models in this study is the implementation of a landfast-ice mask. Simulated sea-ice fields from different model runs are compared with emphasis placed on the impact of this prescribed landfast-ice mask. We demonstrate that sea-ice models are not able to simulate flaw polynyas realistically when used without fast-ice description. Our investigations indicate that without landfast ice and with coarse horizontal resolution the models overestimate the fraction of open water in the polynya. This is not because a realistic polynya appears but due to a larger-scale reduction of ice concentrations and smoothed ice-concentration fields. After implementation of a landfast-ice mask, the polynya location is realistically simulated but the total open-water area is still overestimated in most cases. The study shows that the fast-ice parameterization is essential for model improvements. However, further improvements are necessary in order to progress from the simulation of large-scale features in the Arctic towards a more detailed simulation of smaller-scaled features (here polynyas) in an Arctic shelf sea.Keywords: Polynyas; sea ice; sea-ice/ocean models; remote sensing(Published: 9 May 2011)Citation: Polar Research 2011, 30, 7124, DOI:10.3402/polar.v30i0.7124 |
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Evaluation of simulated sea-ice concentrations from sea-ice/ ocean models using satellite data and polynya classification methods |
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Evaluation of simulated sea-ice concentrations from sea-ice/ ocean models using satellite data and polynya classification methods |
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Evaluation of simulated sea-ice concentrations from sea-ice/ ocean models using satellite data and polynya classification methods |
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Evaluation of simulated sea-ice concentrations from sea-ice/ ocean models using satellite data and polynya classification methods |
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Evaluation of simulated sea-ice concentrations from sea-ice/ ocean models using satellite data and polynya classification methods |
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evaluation of simulated sea-ice concentrations from sea-ice/ ocean models using satellite data and polynya classification methods |
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