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Articles | Volume 13, issue 10
Articles | Volume 13, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-4845-2020
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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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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.
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