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 C., Tschudi, Mark, Stewart, J. Scott, Pedersen, Stine Højlund, Reinking, A.K., Elder, Kelly
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Merra; National Snow and Ice Data Center; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/24800; 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...