CESM2 Sea Ice thermodynamics sensitivity experiments

We analyze two preindustrial experiments from the Community Earth System Model version 2 (CESM2) to characterize the impact of sea ice physics on differences in coastal sea ice production around Antarctica and the resulting impact on the ocean and atmosphere. The only difference between the two experiments is the selection of the thermodynamic formulation, by changing the ktherm namelist parameter. We find substantial differences in the dominant sea ice physical processes, ocean water mass formation, ocean circulation, and coastal atmosphere.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5065/bgt9-tz46

Temporal Resolution

1.0 month

Spatial Resolution

1.0 degreesLongitude
1.0 degreesLatitude

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GCMD Science Keywords

• Cryosphere > Sea Ice > Ice Growth/Melt
• Models > Coupled Climate Models
• Oceans > Sea Ice
• Oceans > Sea Ice > Ice Growth/Melt

GCMD Platform Types

• Other > Models > Cesm > Ncar Community Earth System Model

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Support Contact

Alice DuVivier
UCAR/NCAR - Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory
duvivier@ucar.edu

Data Curator

GDEX Curator
UCAR/NCAR - GDEX
datahelp@ucar.edu

Credit

The CESM project is supported primarily by the National Science Foundation (NSF). This material is based upon work supported by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), which is a major facility sponsored by the NSF under Cooperative Agreement 1852977. Computing and data storage resources, including the Cheyenne supercomputer (doi:10.5065/D6RX99HX), were provided by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at NCAR. We thank all the scientists, software engineers, and administrators who contributed to the development of CESM2.

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