Going with the floe: tracking CESM Large Ensemble sea ice in the Arctic provides context for ship-based observations

Autor: A. K. DuVivier, P. DeRepentigny, M. M. Holland, M. Webster, J. E. Kay, D. Perovich
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: The Cryosphere, Vol 14, Pp 1259-1271 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1994-0416
1994-0424
DOI: 10.5194/tc-14-1259-2020
Popis: In recent decades, Arctic sea ice has shifted toward a younger, thinner, seasonal ice regime. Studying and understanding this “new” Arctic will be the focus of a year-long ship campaign beginning in autumn 2019. Lagrangian tracking of sea ice floes in the Community Earth System Model Large Ensemble (CESM-LE) during representative “perennial” and “seasonal” time periods allows for understanding of the conditions that a floe could experience throughout the calendar year. These model tracks, put into context a single year of observations, provide guidance on how observations can optimally shape model development, and how climate models could be used in future campaign planning. The modeled floe tracks show a range of possible trajectories, though a Transpolar Drift trajectory is most likely. There is also a small but emerging possibility of high-risk tracks, including possible melt of the floe before the end of a calendar year. We find that a Lagrangian approach is essential in order to correctly compare the seasonal cycle of sea ice conditions between point-based observations and a model. Because of high variability in the melt season sea ice conditions, we recommend in situ sampling over a large range of ice conditions for a more complete understanding of how ice type and surface conditions affect the observed processes. We find that sea ice predictability emerges rapidly during the autumn freeze-up and anticipate that process-based observations during this period may help elucidate the processes leading to this change in predictability.
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