Simulations of the Arctic sea ice comparing different approaches to modelling the floe size distribution and their respective impacts on the sea ice cover

Description

This dataset has been produced by implementing either a power law derived or prognostic sea ice floe size distribution model within the CICE sea ice model. This dataset is used within the thesis ‘Fragmentation and melting of the seasonal sea ice cover’ (Bateson, 2021) to investigate the impact of the sea ice floe size distribution on the evolution of the Arctic sea ice cover and to compare different approaches to modelling floe size. Results are presented to show how variable floe size changes the seasonal retreat of the Arctic sea ice cover via changes to lateral melt volume and momentum exchange between the sea ice, ocean, and atmosphere. Winter floe formation and growth processes are found to strongly influence FSD impacts on the seasonal retreat of the sea ice, and the need to include brittle fracture processes in floe size distribution models is also demonstrated. A high sensitivity is found to poorly constrained FSD parameters, highlighting the need for further observations of floe size.

Resource Type:	Dataset
Creators:	Bateson, Adam ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1239-4161
Contributors:	Feltham, Danny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2289-014X, Schroeder, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2351-4306, Hosekova, Lucia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0242-7078, 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:	2021
Data last accessed:	19 April 2024
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.300
Metadata Record URL:	https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/300
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, model comparison, model-observations comparison
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 1980 To 31 December 2060 Geographic coverage: Arctic basin Data collection method: This dataset has been generated by implementing either a power law derived or prognostic sea ice floe size distribution model within the CICE sea ice model. Full details are available from Bateson (2021). 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: 20 May 2021 13:31 Last Modified: 10 May 2023 12:33