Simulations with the sea ice model CICE investigating the impact of sea ice floe size distribution on seasonal Arctic sea ice retreat.

Description

This dataset has been generated by implementing a power law derived sea ice floe size distribution model within the CICE sea ice model. We use this dataset within the associated paper (Bateson et al., 2019) to investigate the impact of floe size on the seasonal fragmentation and melt of Arctic sea ice. We document several findings including that the floe size distribution model has a spatially and temporally dependent impact on the sea ice cover, in particular enhancing the role of the marginal ice zone in sea ice loss. We also show a strong model sensitivity to floe size distribution parameters within limits constrained by observations. We furthermore find that the impact of waves on floe size and the sea ice cover is strongly moderated by the wave attenuation rate.

Resource Type:	Dataset
Creators:	Bateson, Adam ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1239-4161
Contributors:	Feltham, Danny, Schroeder, David, Hosekova, Lucia, Ridley, Jeff ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2612-9924 and Aksenov, Yevgeny
Rights-holders:	University of Reading
Data Publisher:	University of Reading
Publication Year:	2019
Data last accessed:	24 October 2024
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.223
Metadata Record URL:	https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/223
Organisational units:	Science > School of Mathematical, Computational and Physical Sciences > Department of Meteorology
Participating Organisations:	University of Reading, Met Office Hadley Centre
Keywords:	sea ice, floe size distribution, cryosphere, sea ice modelling, climate modelling
Rights:	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Data Availability:	OPEN
Additional details Additional details Project Name: Fragmentation and melting of the seasonal sea ice cover (NERC Industrial CASE programme) Funders: Natural Environment Research Council (NE/M009637/1) Met Office (NE/M009637/1) Resource Language: English Temporal coverage: From 1 January 2005 To 31 December 2016 Geographic coverage: Arctic basin Data collection method: This dataset has been generated by implementing a power law derived sea ice floe size distribution model within the CICE sea ice model. Full details are available from Bateson et al. (2019). Data processing and preparation activities: The data is stored in netCDF format. The dataset has been compressed into a tar.gz file. Depositing User: Adam Bateson Date Deposited: 09 Aug 2019 14:21 Last Modified: 10 May 2023 12:32