Contributions of atmospheric forcing and ocean preconditioning in the 2016 Antarctic sea ice extent drop
The 2016 Antarctic sea ice extent (SIE) drop was a rapid decrease that led to persistent low sea ice conditions. The event was triggered by atmospheric anomalies, but the potential preconditioning role of the ocean is unsettled. Here, we use sensitivity experiments with a fully-coupled regional clim...
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ftunivlouvain:oai:dial.uclouvain.be:boreal:286999 2024-05-19T07:28:49+00:00 Contributions of atmospheric forcing and ocean preconditioning in the 2016 Antarctic sea ice extent drop Mezzina, Bianca Goosse, Hugues Huot, Pierre-Vincent Marchi, Sylvain Van Lipzig, Nicole UCL - SST/ELI/ELIC - Earth & Climate 2024 http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/286999 https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/ad3a0b eng eng IOP Publishing boreal:286999 http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/286999 doi:10.1088/2752-5295/ad3a0b urn:EISSN:2752-5295 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Environmental Research: Climate, Vol. 3, no.2, p. 021002 (2024) info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2024 ftunivlouvain https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/ad3a0b 2024-04-30T23:32:17Z The 2016 Antarctic sea ice extent (SIE) drop was a rapid decrease that led to persistent low sea ice conditions. The event was triggered by atmospheric anomalies, but the potential preconditioning role of the ocean is unsettled. Here, we use sensitivity experiments with a fully-coupled regional climate model to elucidate the impact of the ocean conditions on the drop and on the persistence of the negative SIE anomalies during 2017. In particular, we re-initialize the model in January 2016 using different ocean and sea ice conditions, keeping lateral boundary forcings in the atmosphere and ocean unchanged. We find that the state of the Southern Ocean in early 2016 does not determine whether the drop occurs or not, but indeed has an impact on its amplitude and regional characteristics. Our results also indicate that the ocean initialization affects the sea ice recovery after the drop in the short term (one year), especially in the Weddell sector. The ocean's influence appears not to be linked to the ocean surface and sea-ice initialization, but rather to the sub-surface conditions (between 50 m and 150 m) and heat exchange fluctuations at the regional scale, while the atmospheric forcing triggering the drop is driven by the large-scale circulation. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Sea ice Southern Ocean DIAL@UCLouvain (Université catholique de Louvain) Environmental Research: Climate 3 2 021002 |
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The 2016 Antarctic sea ice extent (SIE) drop was a rapid decrease that led to persistent low sea ice conditions. The event was triggered by atmospheric anomalies, but the potential preconditioning role of the ocean is unsettled. Here, we use sensitivity experiments with a fully-coupled regional climate model to elucidate the impact of the ocean conditions on the drop and on the persistence of the negative SIE anomalies during 2017. In particular, we re-initialize the model in January 2016 using different ocean and sea ice conditions, keeping lateral boundary forcings in the atmosphere and ocean unchanged. We find that the state of the Southern Ocean in early 2016 does not determine whether the drop occurs or not, but indeed has an impact on its amplitude and regional characteristics. Our results also indicate that the ocean initialization affects the sea ice recovery after the drop in the short term (one year), especially in the Weddell sector. The ocean's influence appears not to be linked to the ocean surface and sea-ice initialization, but rather to the sub-surface conditions (between 50 m and 150 m) and heat exchange fluctuations at the regional scale, while the atmospheric forcing triggering the drop is driven by the large-scale circulation. |
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Mezzina, Bianca Goosse, Hugues Huot, Pierre-Vincent Marchi, Sylvain Van Lipzig, Nicole Contributions of atmospheric forcing and ocean preconditioning in the 2016 Antarctic sea ice extent drop |
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Mezzina, Bianca Goosse, Hugues Huot, Pierre-Vincent Marchi, Sylvain Van Lipzig, Nicole |
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Contributions of atmospheric forcing and ocean preconditioning in the 2016 Antarctic sea ice extent drop |
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Contributions of atmospheric forcing and ocean preconditioning in the 2016 Antarctic sea ice extent drop |
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Contributions of atmospheric forcing and ocean preconditioning in the 2016 Antarctic sea ice extent drop |
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Contributions of atmospheric forcing and ocean preconditioning in the 2016 Antarctic sea ice extent drop |
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Contributions of atmospheric forcing and ocean preconditioning in the 2016 Antarctic sea ice extent drop |
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contributions of atmospheric forcing and ocean preconditioning in the 2016 antarctic sea ice extent drop |
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