Liston, GE;
Itkin, P;
Stroeve, J;
Tschudi, M;
Stewart, JS;
Pedersen, SH;
Reinking, AK;
(2020)
A Lagrangian Snow‐Evolution System for Sea‐Ice Applications (SnowModel‐LG): Part I – Model Description.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
, 125
(10)
, Article e2019JC015913. 10.1029/2019jc015913.
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Abstract
A Lagrangian snow‐evolution model (SnowModel‐LG) was used to produce daily, pan‐Arctic, snow‐on‐sea‐ice, snow property distributions on a 25‐km × 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 Applications‐Version 2 (MERRA‐2) and European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) ReAnalysis‐5th Generation (ERA5) atmospheric reanalyses, anad National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) sea ice parcel concentration and trajectory datasets (approximately 61,000, 14‐km × 14‐km parcels). The simulations performed full surface and internal energy and mass balances within a multilayer snowpack evolution system. Processes and features accounted for included: rainfall, snowfall, sublimation from static‐surfaces and blowing‐snow, snow melt, snow density evolution, snow temperature profiles, energy and mass transfers within the snowpack, superimposed ice, and ice dynamics. The simulations produced horizontal snow spatial structures that likely exist in the natural system but have not been revealed in previous studies spanning these spatial and temporal domains. Blowing‐snow sublimation made a significant contribution to the snowpack mass budget. The superimposed ice layer was minimal and decreased over the last four decades. Snow carryover to the next accumulation season was minimal and sensitive to the melt‐season atmospheric forcing (e.g., the average summer melt period was three weeks or 50% longer with ERA5 forcing than MERRA‐2 forcing). Observed ice dynamics controlled the ice parcel age (in days), and ice age exerted a first‐order control on snow property evolution.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A Lagrangian Snow‐Evolution System for Sea‐Ice Applications (SnowModel‐LG): Part I – Model Description |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1029/2019jc015913 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jc015913 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Snow on Sea Ice, Arctic, SnowModel‐LG, Lagrangian |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Earth Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10107451 |
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