The Impact of an Intense Cyclone on Short-Term Sea Ice Loss in a Fully Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean-Ice Model
AbstractArctic cyclones may be associated with periods of locally enhanced sea ice loss during the summer, and some studies have found that an intense cyclone in August 2012 resulted in a rapid sea ice retreat. This study uses a coupled atmosphere‐ocean‐ice model (Navy‐ESPC) to explore the relations...
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ftopenaccessrep:oai:zenodo.org:91969 2023-10-25T01:35:42+02:00 The Impact of an Intense Cyclone on Short-Term Sea Ice Loss in a Fully Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean-Ice Model James D. Doyle E. Joseph Metzger Peter M. Finocchio William A. Komaromi Daniel P. Stern Neil P Barton 2020-02-12 https://www.openaccessrepository.it/record/91969 https://doi.org/10.1029/2019gl085580 eng eng url:https://www.openaccessrepository.it/communities/itmirror https://www.openaccessrepository.it/record/91969 doi:10.1029/2019gl085580 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess NEANIAS Atmospheric Research Community General Earth and Planetary Sciences Geophysics info:eu-repo/semantics/article publication-article 2020 ftopenaccessrep https://doi.org/10.1029/2019gl085580 2023-09-26T22:17:15Z AbstractArctic cyclones may be associated with periods of locally enhanced sea ice loss during the summer, and some studies have found that an intense cyclone in August 2012 resulted in a rapid sea ice retreat. This study uses a coupled atmosphere‐ocean‐ice model (Navy‐ESPC) to explore the relationship between the 2012 cyclone and short‐term sea ice melting. There are two mechanisms of cyclone‐induced melting in Navy‐ESPC: turbulent mixing of a warm layer located at 15‐ to 35‐m depth increases bottom melting and warm air advection by the strong surface winds increases surface melting. Although the rate of sea ice melt is substantially increased in association with the cyclone, this effect is confined to a relatively small region and only lasts for a few days. There is no clear signature of the cyclone on the overall Arctic sea ice extent in Navy‐ESPC. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Sea ice Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN): Open Access Repository Arctic Geophysical Research Letters 47 4 |
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AbstractArctic cyclones may be associated with periods of locally enhanced sea ice loss during the summer, and some studies have found that an intense cyclone in August 2012 resulted in a rapid sea ice retreat. This study uses a coupled atmosphere‐ocean‐ice model (Navy‐ESPC) to explore the relationship between the 2012 cyclone and short‐term sea ice melting. There are two mechanisms of cyclone‐induced melting in Navy‐ESPC: turbulent mixing of a warm layer located at 15‐ to 35‐m depth increases bottom melting and warm air advection by the strong surface winds increases surface melting. Although the rate of sea ice melt is substantially increased in association with the cyclone, this effect is confined to a relatively small region and only lasts for a few days. There is no clear signature of the cyclone on the overall Arctic sea ice extent in Navy‐ESPC. |
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The Impact of an Intense Cyclone on Short-Term Sea Ice Loss in a Fully Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean-Ice Model |
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The Impact of an Intense Cyclone on Short-Term Sea Ice Loss in a Fully Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean-Ice Model |
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The Impact of an Intense Cyclone on Short-Term Sea Ice Loss in a Fully Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean-Ice Model |
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The Impact of an Intense Cyclone on Short-Term Sea Ice Loss in a Fully Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean-Ice Model |
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The Impact of an Intense Cyclone on Short-Term Sea Ice Loss in a Fully Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean-Ice Model |
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impact of an intense cyclone on short-term sea ice loss in a fully coupled atmosphere-ocean-ice model |
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