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DOI | 10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0125.1 |
Intercomparison of Precipitation Estimates over the Arctic Ocean and Its Peripheral Seas from Reanalyses | |
Boisvert, Linette N.1; Webster, Melinda A.1; Petty, Alek A.1,2; Markus, Thorsten1; Bromwich, David H.3; Cullather, Richard, I2,4 | |
2018-10-01 | |
发表期刊 | JOURNAL OF CLIMATE |
ISSN | 0894-8755 |
EISSN | 1520-0442 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 31期号:20页码:8441-8462 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
英文摘要 | Precipitation over the Arctic Ocean has a significant impact on the basin-scale freshwater and energy budgets but is one of the most poorly constrained variables in atmospheric reanalyses. Precipitation controls the snow cover on sea ice, which impedes the exchange of energy between the ocean and atmosphere, inhibiting sea ice growth. Thus, accurate precipitation amounts are needed to inform sea ice modeling, especially for the production of thickness estimates from satellite altimetry freeboard data. However, obtaining a quantitative estimate of the precipitation distribution in the Arctic is notoriously difficult because of a number of factors, including a lack of reliable, long-term in situ observations; difficulties in remote sensing over sea ice; and model biases in temperature and moisture fields and associated uncertainty of modeled cloud microphysical processes in the polar regions. Here, we compare precipitation estimates over the Arctic Ocean from eight widely used atmospheric reanalyses over the period 2000-16 (nominally the new Arctic). We find that the magnitude, frequency, and phase of precipitation vary drastically, although interannual variability is similar. Reanalysis-derived precipitation does not increase with time as expected; however, an increasing trend of higher fractions of liquid precipitation (rainfall) is found. When compared with drifting ice mass balance buoys, three reanalyses (ERA-Interim, MERRA, and NCEP R2) produce realistic magnitudes and temporal agreement with observed precipitation events, while two products [MERRA, version 2 (MERRA-2), and CFSR] show large, implausible magnitudes in precipitation events. All the reanalyses tend to produce overly frequent Arctic precipitation. Future work needs to be undertaken to determine the specific factors in reanalyses that contribute to these discrepancies in the new Arctic. |
英文关键词 | Atmosphere Precipitation Freezing precipitation Reanalysis data |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000444223000005 |
WOS关键词 | ATMOSPHERIC HYDROLOGIC-CYCLE ; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS SCHEMES ; GLOBAL ENERGY ; WATER-VAPOR ; SNOW DEPTH ; ICE ; MODEL ; VARIABILITY ; SUMMER ; LAND |
WOS类目 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/19574 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Cryospher Sci Lab, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA; 2.Univ Maryland, Earth Syst Sci Interdisciplinary Ctr, College Pk, MD 20742 USA; 3.Ohio State Univ, Byrd Polar & Climate Res Ctr, Columbus, OH 43210 USA; 4.NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Global Modeling & Assimilat Off, Greenbelt, MD USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Boisvert, Linette N.,Webster, Melinda A.,Petty, Alek A.,et al. Intercomparison of Precipitation Estimates over the Arctic Ocean and Its Peripheral Seas from Reanalyses[J]. JOURNAL OF CLIMATE,2018,31(20):8441-8462. |
APA | Boisvert, Linette N.,Webster, Melinda A.,Petty, Alek A.,Markus, Thorsten,Bromwich, David H.,&Cullather, Richard, I.(2018).Intercomparison of Precipitation Estimates over the Arctic Ocean and Its Peripheral Seas from Reanalyses.JOURNAL OF CLIMATE,31(20),8441-8462. |
MLA | Boisvert, Linette N.,et al."Intercomparison of Precipitation Estimates over the Arctic Ocean and Its Peripheral Seas from Reanalyses".JOURNAL OF CLIMATE 31.20(2018):8441-8462. |
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