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JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
卷 25, 期 8, 页码 2676-2695出版社
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00228.1
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- Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- National Science Foundation [ARC-0628910, ARC1023366]
- U.S. DOE [DE-AC02-05CH11231, ARC0632187]
- DOE [DE-FG02-05ER63965]
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Division Of Polar Programs [1023366] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Office of Polar Programs (OPP) [1023131] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
- Directorate For Geosciences [0902065] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Simulation of key features of the Arctic atmosphere in the Community Climate System Model, version 4 (CCSM4) is evaluated against observational and reanalysis datasets for the present-day (1981-2005). Surface air temperature, sea level pressure, cloud cover and phase, precipitation and evaporation, the atmospheric energy budget, and lower-tropospheric stability are evaluated. Simulated surface air temperatures are found to be slightly too cold when compared with the 40-yr ECMWF Re-Analysis (ERA-40). Spatial patterns and temporal variability are well simulated. Evaluation of the sea level pressure demonstrates some large biases, most noticeably an under simulation of the Beaufort High during spring and autumn. Monthly Arctic-wide biases of up to 13 mb are reported. Cloud cover is underpredicted for all but summer months, and cloud phase is demonstrated to be different from observations. Despite low cloud cover, simulated all-sky liquid water paths are too high, while ice water path was generally too low. Precipitation is found to be excessive over much of the Arctic compared to ERA-40 and the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) estimates. With some exceptions, evaporation is well captured by CCSM4, resulting in P - E estimates that are too high. CCSM4 energy budget terms show promising agreement with estimates from several sources. The most noticeable exception to this is the top of the atmosphere (TOA) fluxes that are found to be too low while surface fluxes are found to be too high during summer months. Finally, the lower troposphere is found to be too stable when compared to ERA-40 during all times of year but particularly during spring and summer months.
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