Summer sea ice floe perimeter density in the Arctic: high-resolution optical satellite imagery and model evaluation

Size distribution of sea ice floes is an important component for sea ice thermodynamic and dynamic processes, particularly in the marginal ice zone. Recently processes related to the floe size distribution (FSD) have been incorporated into sea ice models, but the sparsity of existing observations li...

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Published in:The Cryosphere
Main Authors: Wang, Yanan, Hwang, Byongjun, Bateson, Adam William, Aksenov, Yevgeny, Horvat, Christopher
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spelling ftnonlinearchiv:oai:noa.gwlb.de:cop_mods_00068523 2023-09-26T15:14:40+02:00 Summer sea ice floe perimeter density in the Arctic: high-resolution optical satellite imagery and model evaluation Wang, Yanan Hwang, Byongjun Bateson, Adam William Aksenov, Yevgeny Horvat, Christopher 2023-08 electronic https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3575-2023 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00068523 https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00066949/tc-17-3575-2023.pdf https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/17/3575/2023/tc-17-3575-2023.pdf eng eng Copernicus Publications The Cryosphere -- ˜Theœ Cryosphere -- http://www.bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/?2393169 -- http://www.the-cryosphere.net/ -- 1994-0424 https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3575-2023 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00068523 https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00066949/tc-17-3575-2023.pdf https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/17/3575/2023/tc-17-3575-2023.pdf https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ uneingeschränkt info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article Verlagsveröffentlichung article Text doc-type:article 2023 ftnonlinearchiv https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3575-2023 2023-08-27T23:20:34Z Size distribution of sea ice floes is an important component for sea ice thermodynamic and dynamic processes, particularly in the marginal ice zone. Recently processes related to the floe size distribution (FSD) have been incorporated into sea ice models, but the sparsity of existing observations limits the evaluation of FSD models, thus hindering model improvements. In this study, perimeter density has been applied to characterise the floe size distribution for evaluating three FSD models – the Waves-in-Ice module and Power law Floe Size Distribution (WIPoFSD) model and two branches of a fully prognostic floe size-thickness distribution model: CPOM-FSD and FSDv2-WAVE. These models are evaluated against a new FSD dataset derived from high-resolution satellite imagery in the Arctic. The evaluation shows an overall overestimation of floe perimeter density by the models against the observations. Comparison of the floe perimeter density distribution with the observations shows that the models exhibit a much larger proportion for small floes (radius <10–30 m) but a much smaller proportion for large floes (radius >30–50 m). Observations and the WIPoFSD model both show a negative correlation between sea ice concentration and the floe perimeter density, but the two prognostic models (CPOM-FSD and FSDv2-WAVE) show the opposite pattern. These differences between models and the observations may be attributed to limitations in the observations (e.g. the image resolution is not sufficient to detect small floes) or limitations in the model parameterisations, including the use of a global power-law exponent in the WIPoFSD model as well as too weak a floe welding and enhanced wave fracture in the prognostic models. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Sea ice The Cryosphere Niedersächsisches Online-Archiv NOA Arctic The Cryosphere 17 8 3575 3591
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Summer sea ice floe perimeter density in the Arctic: high-resolution optical satellite imagery and model evaluation
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description Size distribution of sea ice floes is an important component for sea ice thermodynamic and dynamic processes, particularly in the marginal ice zone. Recently processes related to the floe size distribution (FSD) have been incorporated into sea ice models, but the sparsity of existing observations limits the evaluation of FSD models, thus hindering model improvements. In this study, perimeter density has been applied to characterise the floe size distribution for evaluating three FSD models – the Waves-in-Ice module and Power law Floe Size Distribution (WIPoFSD) model and two branches of a fully prognostic floe size-thickness distribution model: CPOM-FSD and FSDv2-WAVE. These models are evaluated against a new FSD dataset derived from high-resolution satellite imagery in the Arctic. The evaluation shows an overall overestimation of floe perimeter density by the models against the observations. Comparison of the floe perimeter density distribution with the observations shows that the models exhibit a much larger proportion for small floes (radius <10–30 m) but a much smaller proportion for large floes (radius >30–50 m). Observations and the WIPoFSD model both show a negative correlation between sea ice concentration and the floe perimeter density, but the two prognostic models (CPOM-FSD and FSDv2-WAVE) show the opposite pattern. These differences between models and the observations may be attributed to limitations in the observations (e.g. the image resolution is not sufficient to detect small floes) or limitations in the model parameterisations, including the use of a global power-law exponent in the WIPoFSD model as well as too weak a floe welding and enhanced wave fracture in the prognostic models.
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author Wang, Yanan
Hwang, Byongjun
Bateson, Adam William
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Horvat, Christopher
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title Summer sea ice floe perimeter density in the Arctic: high-resolution optical satellite imagery and model evaluation
title_short Summer sea ice floe perimeter density in the Arctic: high-resolution optical satellite imagery and model evaluation
title_full Summer sea ice floe perimeter density in the Arctic: high-resolution optical satellite imagery and model evaluation
title_fullStr Summer sea ice floe perimeter density in the Arctic: high-resolution optical satellite imagery and model evaluation
title_full_unstemmed Summer sea ice floe perimeter density in the Arctic: high-resolution optical satellite imagery and model evaluation
title_sort summer sea ice floe perimeter density in the arctic: high-resolution optical satellite imagery and model evaluation
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