Conservation of heat and mass in P-SKRIPS version 1: the coupled atmosphere–ice–ocean model of the Ross Sea

Malyarenko, Alena; Gossart, Alexandra; Sun, Rui; Krapp, Mario

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-3355-2023

Articles | Volume 16, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-3355-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-3355-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 11

Development and technical paper

|

14 Jun 2023

Development and technical paper |

| 14 Jun 2023

Conservation of heat and mass in P-SKRIPS version 1: the coupled atmosphere–ice–ocean model of the Ross Sea

Alena Malyarenko, Alexandra Gossart, Rui Sun, and Mario Krapp

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-3355-2023-supplement

Data sets

ERA5 hourly data on pressure levels from 1940 to present H. Hersbach, B. Bell, P. Berrisford, G. Biavati, A. Horányi, J. Muñoz Sabater, J. Nicolas, C. Peubey, R. Radu, I. Rozum, D. Schepers, A. Simmons, C. Soci, D. Dee, and J.-N. Thépaut https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.bd0915c6

ERA5 hourly data on single levels from 1940 to present H. Hersbach, B. Bell, P. Berrisford, G. Biavati, A. Horányi, J. Muñoz Sabater, J. Nicolas, C. Peubey, R. Radu, I. Rozum, D. Schepers, A. Simmons, C. Soci, D. Dee, and J.-N. Thépaut https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.adbb2d47

An Eddy-Permitting Southern Ocean State Estimate (http://sose.ucsd.edu/SO6/ITER135/) Matthew R. Mazloff, Patrick Heimbach, and Carl Wunsch https://doi.org/10.1175/2009JPO4236.1

Bedmap2: improved ice bed, surface and thickness datasets for Antarctica (https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/maps/thematic-maps/bedmap2/) P. Fretwell, H. D. Pritchard, D. G. Vaughan, J. L. Bamber, N. E. Barrand, R. Bell, C. Bianchi, R. G. Bingham, D. D. Blankenship, G. Casassa, G. Catania, D. Callens, H. Conway, A. J. Cook, H. F. J. Corr, D. Damaske, V. Damm, F. Ferraccioli, R. Forsberg, S. Fujita, Y. Gim, P. Gogineni, J. A. Griggs, R. C. A. Hindmarsh, P. Holmlund, J. W. Holt, R. W. Jacobel, A. Jenkins, W. Jokat, T. Jordan, E. C. King, J. Kohler, W. Krabill, M. Riger-Kusk, K. A. Langley, G. Leitchenkov, C. Leuschen, B. P. Luyendyk, K. Matsuoka, J. Mouginot, F. O. Nitsche, Y. Nogi, O. A. Nost, S. V. Popov, E. Rignot, D. M. Rippin, A. Rivera, J. Roberts, N. Ross, M. J. Siegert, A. M. Smith, D. Steinhage, M. Studinger, B. Sun, B. K. Tinto, B. C. Welch, D. Wilson, D. A. Young, C. Xiangbin, and A. Zirizzotti https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-375-2013

Model code and software

P-SKRIPS Version 1 Part 1 A. Malyarenko and A. Gossart https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7739063

P-SKRIPS Version 1 Part 2 A. Malyarenko and A. Gossart https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7739059

SKRIPS Model v2.0b (v2.0b) Rui Sun https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7972577

Short summary

Simultaneous modelling of ocean, sea ice, and atmosphere in coupled models is critical for understanding all of the processes that happen in the Antarctic. Here we have developed a coupled model for the Ross Sea, P-SKRIPS, that conserves heat and mass between the ocean and sea ice model (MITgcm) and the atmosphere model (PWRF). We have shown that our developments reduce the model drift, which is important for long-term simulations. P-SKRIPS shows good results in modelling coastal polynyas.