Sensitivity of atmospheric forcing on sea ice and Antarctic shelf water in a modelling study.
The representation in numerical models of dense shelf water formation and interaction between sea ice, ocean, and atmosphere are essential for realistic simulation of bottom water mass and thermohaline circulation. The purpose of this work is to improve the representation of basic processes controli...
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Format: | Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis |
Language: | French |
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HAL CCSD
2009
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Online Access: | https://theses.hal.science/tel-00375960 https://theses.hal.science/tel-00375960/document https://theses.hal.science/tel-00375960/file/THESE.pdf |
Summary: | The representation in numerical models of dense shelf water formation and interaction between sea ice, ocean, and atmosphere are essential for realistic simulation of bottom water mass and thermohaline circulation. The purpose of this work is to improve the representation of basic processes controling the formation and modification of shelf dense water in Antarctic like sea ice, ice shelves and forcing fields in NEMO ocean/sea-ice model. Series of realistic simulations show that fine tuning for the sea ice model, ice shelf parametrization, and katabatic winds correction have a positive impact on simulated sea ice, polynya and shelf water properties. However, these improvements are not able to correct all initial flaws. Other simulations are carried out, to test the effect of adifferent atmospheric forcing obtained from a regional downscaling of global reanalysis ERA40 in Antarctic area, performed with a regional mesoscale atmospheric model. This work shows that turbulent atmospheric variables (temperature, humidity and wind) have a strong positive impacts on sea ice and shelf water properties. This impact is greater that the tuning, parametrization and correction performed previously. Nevertheless, great effort are yet necessary to produce the regional forcing fields that sea-ice and ice shelves require. La représentation dans un modèle numérique de la circulation générale océanique de la formation des eaux denses de plateau et des intéractions entre la glace de mer, l'océan et l'atmosphère en Antarctique est indispensable pour une simulation réaliste des masses d'eau profonde et de la circulation thermohaline de l'océan global. Dans ce travail, j'ai cherché à améliorer la modélisation des phénomènes importants pour la formation et la modification des eaux denses présentes sur le plateau continental antarctique (glace de mer, ice shelves, forçage atmosphérique) dans le code d'océan/glace de mer NEMO. J'ai montré, avec des simulations régionales réalistes, que les réglages fins proposés pour le modèle de glace, ... |
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