A Lagrangian Snow‐Evolution System for Sea‐Ice Applications (SnowModel‐LG): Part I—Model Description

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Liston, Glen E., Itkin, Polona, Stroeve, Julienne, Tschudi, Mark, Stewart, J. Scott, Pedersen, Stine H., Reinking, Adele K., Elder, Kelly
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
• Subjects: Research Articles; Arctic; Merra; National Snow and Ice Data Center; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7583384/; https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015913

A Lagrangian snow‐evolution model (SnowModel‐LG) was used to produce daily, pan‐Arctic, snow‐on‐sea‐ice, snow property distributions on a 25 × 25‐km grid, from 1 August 1980 through 31 July 2018 (38 years). The model was forced with NASA's Modern Era Retrospective‐Analysis for Research and Appl...