Articles | Volume 16, issue 24
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-7289-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-7289-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Model experiment description paper
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19 Dec 2023
Model experiment description paper |
| 19 Dec 2023
| 19 Dec 2023
The Southern Ocean Freshwater Input from Antarctica (SOFIA) Initiative: scientific objectives and experimental design
Neil C. Swart
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada
Torge Martin
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Rebecca Beadling
Temple University, Earth and Environmental Science Department, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Jia-Jia Chen
College of Oceanography, Hohai University, Nanjing, China
Christopher Danek
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
Matthew H. England
Centre for Marine Science and Innovation (CMSI), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
ARC Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Riccardo Farneti
Earth System Physics Section, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
Stephen M. Griffies
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, USA
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Tore Hattermann
Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, Tromsø, Norway
Judith Hauck
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
F. Alexander Haumann
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Department of Geography, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany
André Jüling
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, the Netherlands
Qian Li
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
John Marshall
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
Morven Muilwijk
Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, Tromsø, Norway
Andrew G. Pauling
Department of Physics, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Ariaan Purich
School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
ARC Special Research Initiative for Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Inga J. Smith
Department of Physics, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Max Thomas
Department of Physics, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Data sets
SOFIA model output associated with Swart et al. (2023) “The Southern Ocean Freshwater Input from Antarctica (SOFIA) Initiative: scientific objectives and experimental design” N. Swart http://crd-data-donnees-rdc.ec.gc.ca/CCCMA/SOFIA/
Short summary
Current climate models typically do not include full representation of ice sheets. As the climate warms and the ice sheets melt, they add freshwater to the ocean. This freshwater can influence climate change, for example by causing more sea ice to form. In this paper we propose a set of experiments to test the influence of this missing meltwater from Antarctica using multiple different climate models.
Current climate models typically do not include full representation of ice sheets. As the...
