Coupled Arctic Forecast System (CAFS) forecasts used in study evaluating atmospheric stability with MOSAiC soundings

• Main Authors: Solomon, Amy, Jozef, Gina
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2024
• Subjects: Arctic Ocean; atmospheric boundary layer; CT; DATE/TIME; forecasts; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; Model output; NetCDF format; NetCDF format (File Size); MOSAiC_ATMOS; MOSAiC20192020; Polarstern; PS122/1; PS122/1-track; PS122/2; PS122/2-track; PS122/3; PS122/3-track; PS122/4; PS122/4-track; PS122/5; PS122/5-track; Underway cruise track measurements; Arctic; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.964776; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.964776

6-hourly output from CAFS 10-day forecasts from 1 October 2019 to 12 September 2020. Dataset includes vertical profiles of temperature, specific humidity, pressure, and zonal and meridional wind speed at the Polarstern location. CAFS is an experimental fully coupled pan-Arctic short-term weather forecast model (Solomon et al., 2023) adapted from the Regional Arctic System Model (Maslowski et al., 2012). CAFS component models include the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF3.6.1) atmospheric model, the Parallel Ocean Program (POP2) model, the Los Alamos Community Ice Model (CICE5.1) sea ice model, and the NCAR Community Land Model (CLM4.5) coupled using a regionalized version of the CESM flux coupler (CPL7). CAFS is run at a 10 km horizontal resolution with 40 vertical levels, including 11 vertical levels between 12 m and 1 km. The model is initialized at 00 UTC each day with initial and lateral boundary conditions from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Global Forecast System (GFS) weather forecast model (National Centers for Environmental Information).