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JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN MODELING EARTH SYSTEMS
卷 11, 期 12, 页码 4167-4181出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2019MS001836
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- Marsden Contract [VUW-1408]
- New Zealand Deep South National Science Challenge, MBIE Contract [C01X1445]
- National Science Foundation [PLR-1643431]
- NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship Program [NA16NWS4620043]
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC)
- New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment (MBIE) [C01X1445] Funding Source: New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment (MBIE)
Recent field programs have highlighted the importance of the composite nature of the sea ice mosaic to the climate system. Accordingly, we previously developed a process-based prognostic model that captures key characteristics of the sea ice floe size distribution and its evolution subject to melting, freezing, new ice formation, welding, and fracture by ocean surface waves. Here we build upon this earlier work, demonstrating a new coupling between the sea ice model and ocean surface waves and a new physically based parameterization for new ice formation in open water. The experiments presented here are the first to include two-way interactions between prognostically evolving waves and sea ice on a global domain. The simulated area-average floe perimeter has a similar magnitude to existing observations in the Arctic and exhibits plausible spatial variability. During the melt season, wave fracture is the dominant FSD process driving changes in floe perimeter per unit sea ice area-the quantity that determines the concentration change due to lateral melt-highlighting the importance of wave-ice interactions for marginal ice zone thermodynamics. We additionally interpret the results to target spatial scales and processes for which floe size observations can most effectively improve model fidelity.
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