Using Arctic ice mass balance buoys for evaluation of modelled ice energy fluxes

West, Alex; Collins, Mat; Blockley, Ed

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-4845-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-4845-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-4845-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 10

Methods for assessment of models

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09 Oct 2020

Methods for assessment of models |

| 09 Oct 2020

Using Arctic ice mass balance buoys for evaluation of modelled ice energy fluxes

Alex West, Mat Collins, and Ed Blockley

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RC1: 'Review of “Using Arctic ice mass balance buoys for evaluation of modelled ice energy fluxes” by A. West, M. Collins, and E. Blockley', Anonymous Referee #1, 20 Sep 2019
RC2: 'Referee comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 17 Oct 2019
AC1: 'Response to referee comments, and proposed changes to code, analysis & manuscript', Alex West, 18 Nov 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Alex West on behalf of the Authors (28 Apr 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (22 May 2020) by James Maddison

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (09 Jun 2020)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (10 Jul 2020) by James Maddison

AR by Alex West on behalf of the Authors (17 Jul 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (29 Jul 2020) by James Maddison

AR by Alex West on behalf of the Authors (13 Aug 2020) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

This study calculates sea ice energy fluxes from data produced by ice mass balance buoys (devices measuring ice elevation and temperature). It is shown how the resulting dataset can be used to evaluate a coupled climate model (HadGEM2-ES), with biases in the energy fluxes seen to be consistent with biases in the sea ice state and surface radiation. This method has potential to improve sea ice model evaluation, so as to better understand spread in model simulations of sea ice state.