The impact of a thermodynamic sea-ice module in the COSMO numerical weather prediction model on simulations for the Laptev Sea, Siberian Arctic | Zendy

David Schröder | Zendy; Günther Heinemann | Zendy; Sascha Willmes | Zendy

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The impact of a thermodynamic sea-ice module in the COSMO numerical weather prediction model on simulations for the Laptev Sea, Siberian Arctic

Author(s) -

David Schröder,

Günther Heinemann,

Sascha Willmes

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

polar research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.508

H-Index - 49

eISSN - 1751-8369

pISSN - 0800-0395

DOI - 10.3402/polar.v30i0.6334

Subject(s) - sea ice , climatology , arctic , mesoscale meteorology , environmental science , numerical weather prediction , sea surface temperature , polar , sea ice concentration , moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer , satellite , geology , atmospheric sciences , arctic ice pack , meteorology , sea ice thickness , oceanography , geography , physics , astronomy , aerospace engineering , engineering

Previous versions of the Consortium for Small-scale Modelling (COSMO) numerical weather prediction model have used a constant sea-ice surface temperature, but observations show a high degree of variability on sub-daily timescales. To account for this, we have implemented a thermodynamic sea-ice module in COSMO and performed simulations at a resolution of 15 km and 5 km for the Laptev Sea area in April 2008. Temporal and spatial variability of surface and 2-m air temperature are verified by four automatic weather stations deployed along the edge of the western New Siberian polynya during the Transdrift XIII-2 expedition and by surface temperature charts derived from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite data. A remarkable agreement between the new model results and these observations demonstrates that the implemented sea-ice module can be applied for short-range simulations. Prescribing the polynya areas daily, our COSMO simulations provide a high-resolution and high-quality atmospheric data set for the Laptev Sea for the period 14–30 April 2008. Based on this data set, we derive a mean total sea-ice production rate of 0.53 km3/day for all Laptev Sea polynyas under the assumption that the polynyas are ice-free and a rate of 0.30 km3/day if a 10-cm-thin ice layer is assumed. Our results indicate that ice production in Laptev Sea polynyas has been overestimated in previous studies

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