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Mesoscale Modelling of the Arctic Atmospheric Boundary Layer and Its Interaction with Sea Ice

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This chapter summarises mesoscale modelling studies, which were carried out during the ACSYS decade until 2005. They were aiming at the parameterisation and improved understanding of processes in the Arctic boundary layer over the open ocean and marginal sea ice zones and over the Greenland ice sheet. It is shown that progress has been achieved with the parameterization of fluxes in strong convective situations such as cold-air outbreaks and convection over leads. A first step was made towards the parameterization of the lead-induced turbulence for high-resolution, but non-eddy resolving models. Progress has also been made with the parameterization of the near-surface atmospheric fluxes of energy and momentum modified by sea ice pressure ridges and by ice floe edges. Other studies brought new insight into the complex processes influencing sea ice transport and atmospheric stability over sea ice. Improved understanding was obtained on the cloud effects on the snow/ice surface temperature and further on the near-surface turbulent fluxes. Finally, open questions are addressed, which remained after the ACSYS decade for future programmes having been started in the years after 2005.

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Acknowledgements

Part of the presented research was conducted in the frame of the German ACSYS joint programme funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (FKZ 03PL034A and FKZ 03PL034C). Other parts were funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft under grants He 2740/1 and WA 1334/2–1 and within SFB512. The project ARTIST was funded by the EU (grant no. ENV4-CT97–0487). Finalisation of this work was supported by the EC 6th Framework Programme DAMOCLES. The model simulations were performed on the DKRZ computers within the University of Hamburg contingent. KABEG was an experiment of the Meteorologisches Institut der Universität Bonn (MIUB) in cooperation with the Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI). The ECMWF provided the analyses taken as initial and boundary conditions for simulations presented in Sects. 7.3 and 7.6. SSM/I data used for the derivation of the sea ice coverage for KABEG and ARTIST were provided by the Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) at the Global Hydrology and Climate Center (Huntsville, Alabama, USA).

The numerical models were provided by the Institut für Geophysik und Meteorologie, Universität zu Köln, the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (DNMI, Oslo), the German Meteorological Service (DWD, Offenbach) and the University of Hamburg.

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    Christof Lüpkes, Gerit Birnbaum, Vladimir M. Gryanik, Jörg Hartmann & Ulrike Wacker

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  7. Institute of Oceanography, University of Hamburg, Bundesstr. 55, D-20146, Hamburg, Germany

    Lars Kaleschke

  8. Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, 64, 00014, Helsinki, Finland

    Hannu Savijärvi

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Lüpkes, C. et al. (2012). Mesoscale Modelling of the Arctic Atmospheric Boundary Layer and Its Interaction with Sea Ice. In: Lemke, P., Jacobi, HW. (eds) Arctic Climate Change. Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library, vol 43. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2027-5_7

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