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Model evaluation paper
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27 Aug 2019
Model evaluation paper |
| 27 Aug 2019
| 27 Aug 2019
On the discretization of the ice thickness distribution in the NEMO3.6-LIM3 global ocean–sea ice model
François Massonnet
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research, Earth and
Life Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Antoine Barthélemy
Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research, Earth and
Life Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Koffi Worou
Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research, Earth and
Life Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Thierry Fichefet
Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research, Earth and
Life Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Martin Vancoppenolle
Sorbonne Universités (UPMC Paris 6), LOCEAN-IPSL, CNRS/IRD/MNHN, Paris, France
Clément Rousset
Sorbonne Universités (UPMC Paris 6), LOCEAN-IPSL, CNRS/IRD/MNHN, Paris, France
Eduardo Moreno-Chamarro
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Centro Nacional de Supercomputación), Nexus II-Planta 1 C/ Jordi Girona, 29,
Barcelona, Spain
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Short summary
Sea ice thickness varies considerably on spatial scales of several meters. However, contemporary climate models cannot resolve such scales yet. This is why sea ice models used in climate models include an ice thickness distribution (ITD) to account for this unresolved variability. Here, we explore with the ocean–sea ice model NEMO3.6-LIM3 the sensitivity of simulated mean Arctic and Antarctic sea ice states to the way the ITD is discretized.
Sea ice thickness varies considerably on spatial scales of several meters. However, contemporary...
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