Benefits from representing snow properties and related processes in coupled ocean–sea ice models
Several large-scale sea ice simulations are performed over the last three decades using a coupled ocean– sea ice model under the same experimental setup but partly modifying the representation of snow physics in the model. The inter-simulation spread analysis yields that the simulated multi-year i...
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ftunivlouvain:oai:dial.uclouvain.be:boreal:157622 2024-05-19T07:30:27+00:00 Benefits from representing snow properties and related processes in coupled ocean–sea ice models Lecomte, Olivier Fichefet, Thierry Massonnet, François Vancoppenolle, Martin UCL - SST/ELI/ELIC - Earth & Climate 2015 http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/157622 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2014.11.005 eng eng Elsevier Inc. boreal:157622 http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/157622 doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2014.11.005 urn:ISSN:1463-5003 urn:EISSN:1463-5011 info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Ocean Modelling, Vol. 87, p. 81-85 (2015) Snow Sea ice Model Arctic Antarctic CISM : CECI 1443 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2015 ftunivlouvain https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2014.11.005 2024-04-24T01:31:48Z Several large-scale sea ice simulations are performed over the last three decades using a coupled ocean– sea ice model under the same experimental setup but partly modifying the representation of snow physics in the model. The inter-simulation spread analysis yields that the simulated multi-year ice is sensitive to such changes while the seasonal sea ice, is rather dominantly driven by the external oceanic and atmospheric forcings. In the context of a thinning Arctic sea ice cover, those findings suggest that including snow processes in large-scale sea ice models is beneficial, if not necessary, to predict the timing of the Arctic multi-year ice disappearance, whereas the operational forecasting of first-year ice extent using fully coupled models will likely require improvement to the oceanic and atmospheric components themselves. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Arctic Sea ice DIAL@UCLouvain (Université catholique de Louvain) Ocean Modelling 87 81 85 |
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Several large-scale sea ice simulations are performed over the last three decades using a coupled ocean– sea ice model under the same experimental setup but partly modifying the representation of snow physics in the model. The inter-simulation spread analysis yields that the simulated multi-year ice is sensitive to such changes while the seasonal sea ice, is rather dominantly driven by the external oceanic and atmospheric forcings. In the context of a thinning Arctic sea ice cover, those findings suggest that including snow processes in large-scale sea ice models is beneficial, if not necessary, to predict the timing of the Arctic multi-year ice disappearance, whereas the operational forecasting of first-year ice extent using fully coupled models will likely require improvement to the oceanic and atmospheric components themselves. |
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Benefits from representing snow properties and related processes in coupled ocean–sea ice models |
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Benefits from representing snow properties and related processes in coupled ocean–sea ice models |
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