Modelling Glaciers in the HARMONIE-AROME NWP model
HARMONIE-AROME is a convection-permitting non-hydrostatic model that includes the multi-purpose SURFEX surface model. It is developed for high resolution (1–3 km) weather forecasting and applied in a number of regions in Europe and the Mediterranean. A version of HARMONIE-AROME is also under develop...
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ftnonlinearchiv:oai:noa.gwlb.de:cop_mods_00007734 2023-05-15T16:21:15+02:00 Modelling Glaciers in the HARMONIE-AROME NWP model Mottram, Ruth Nielsen, Kristian Pagh Gleeson, Emily Yang, Xiaohua 2017-12 electronic https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-14-323-2017 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00007734 https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00007691/asr-14-323-2017.pdf https://asr.copernicus.org/articles/14/323/2017/asr-14-323-2017.pdf eng eng Copernicus Publications Advances in Science and Research -- http://www.copernicus.org/COPERNICUS/asr/asr.html -- https://www.adv-sci-res.net/volumes.html -- http://www.bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/?2409176 -- 1992-0636 https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-14-323-2017 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00007734 https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00007691/asr-14-323-2017.pdf https://asr.copernicus.org/articles/14/323/2017/asr-14-323-2017.pdf uneingeschränkt info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article Verlagsveröffentlichung article Text doc-type:article 2017 ftnonlinearchiv https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-14-323-2017 2022-02-08T22:58:22Z HARMONIE-AROME is a convection-permitting non-hydrostatic model that includes the multi-purpose SURFEX surface model. It is developed for high resolution (1–3 km) weather forecasting and applied in a number of regions in Europe and the Mediterranean. A version of HARMONIE-AROME is also under development for regional climate modelling. Here we run HARMONIE-AROME for a domain over Greenland that includes a significant portion of the Greenland ice sheet. The model output reproduces temperature, wind speed and direction and relative humidity over the ice sheet well when compared with the observations from PROMICE automatic weather stations (AWS) operated within the model domain on the ice sheet (mean temperature bias 1.31 ± 3.6 K) but we identified a much lower bias (−0.16 ± 2.3 K) at PROMICE sites on days where melt does not occur at the ice sheet surface and is thus an artefact of the simplified surface scheme over glaciers in the existing HARMONIE-AROME operational set-up. The bias in summer time temperature also affects wind speed and direction as the dominant katabatic winds are caused by the cold ice surface and slope gradient. By setting an upper threshold to the surface temperature of the ice surface within SURFEX we show that the weather forecast error over the Greenland ice sheet can be reduced in summer when glacier ice is exposed. This improvement will facilitate accurate ice melt and run-off computations, important both for ice surface mass budget estimation and for commercial applications such as hydro-power forecasting. Furthermore, the HCLIM regional climate model derived from HARMONIE-AROME will need to accurately account for glacier surface processes in these regions in order to be used to accurately compute the surface mass budget of ice sheets and glaciers, a key goal of regional climate modelling studies in Greenland. Article in Journal/Newspaper glacier Greenland Ice Sheet Niedersächsisches Online-Archiv NOA Greenland Advances in Science and Research 14 323 334 |
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HARMONIE-AROME is a convection-permitting non-hydrostatic model that includes the multi-purpose SURFEX surface model. It is developed for high resolution (1–3 km) weather forecasting and applied in a number of regions in Europe and the Mediterranean. A version of HARMONIE-AROME is also under development for regional climate modelling. Here we run HARMONIE-AROME for a domain over Greenland that includes a significant portion of the Greenland ice sheet. The model output reproduces temperature, wind speed and direction and relative humidity over the ice sheet well when compared with the observations from PROMICE automatic weather stations (AWS) operated within the model domain on the ice sheet (mean temperature bias 1.31 ± 3.6 K) but we identified a much lower bias (−0.16 ± 2.3 K) at PROMICE sites on days where melt does not occur at the ice sheet surface and is thus an artefact of the simplified surface scheme over glaciers in the existing HARMONIE-AROME operational set-up. The bias in summer time temperature also affects wind speed and direction as the dominant katabatic winds are caused by the cold ice surface and slope gradient. By setting an upper threshold to the surface temperature of the ice surface within SURFEX we show that the weather forecast error over the Greenland ice sheet can be reduced in summer when glacier ice is exposed. This improvement will facilitate accurate ice melt and run-off computations, important both for ice surface mass budget estimation and for commercial applications such as hydro-power forecasting. Furthermore, the HCLIM regional climate model derived from HARMONIE-AROME will need to accurately account for glacier surface processes in these regions in order to be used to accurately compute the surface mass budget of ice sheets and glaciers, a key goal of regional climate modelling studies in Greenland. |
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Modelling Glaciers in the HARMONIE-AROME NWP model |
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Modelling Glaciers in the HARMONIE-AROME NWP model |
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