Less Surface Sea Ice Melt in the CESM2 Improves Arctic Sea Ice Simulation With Minimal Non-Polar Climate Impacts

• Published in: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
• Main Authors: Kay, Jennifer E., DeRepentigny, Patricia, Holland, Marika M., Bailey, David A., DuVivier, Alice K., Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, Ed, Deser, Clara, Jahn, Alexandra, Singh, Hansi, Smith, Madison M., Webster, Melinda A., Edwards, Jim, Lee, Sun-Seon, Rodgers, Keith B., Rosenbloom, Nan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 2022
• Subjects: ice-free Arctic Ocean; sea ice; climate; surface melt; internal variability; large initial condition ensemble; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Canada; Kay; albedo; Climate change; Global warming; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/14061; https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002679

The authors authors thank the two anonymous reviewers for their constructive and helpful reviews. This study isolates the influence of sea ice mean state on pre-industrial climate and transient 1850–2100 climate change within a fully coupled global model: The Community Earth System Model version 2 (...