The Summer Arctic Boundary Layer during the Arctic Ocean Experiment 2001 (AOE-2001) |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Michael?Tjernstr?mEmail author |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden |
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Abstract: | Boundary-layer measurements made from the Swedish icebreaker Oden during the Arctic Ocean Experiment 2001 (AOE-2001) are analysed. They refer mainly to ice drift in the central Arctic during
the period 2–21 August 2001. On board Oden a remote sensing array with a wind profiler, cloud radar and a scanning microwave radiometer, and a regular weather station
operated continuously; soundings were also released during research stations. Turbulence and profile measurements on an 18-m
mast were deployed on the ice, along with two sodar systems, a microbarograph array and a tethered sounding system. Surface
flux and meteorological stations were also deployed on nearby ice floes. There is a clear diurnal cycle in radiation and also
in wind speed, cloud base and visibility. It is absent in temperature and humidity, probably due to the very strong control
by melting/ freezing ice and snow. In the advection of warm air, latent heat of melting maintains the surface temperature
at 0 °C, while with a negative energy balance the latent heat of freezing of the salty ocean water acts to maintain the surface
temperature > −2 °C. The constant presence of water at the surface maintains a relative humidity close to 100%, and this is
also often facilitated by an increasing specific humidity through the capping inversion, making entrainment a moisture source.
This ensures cloudy conditions, with low cloud and fog prevailing most of the time. Intrusions of warm and moist air from
beyond the ice edge are frequent, but the local Arctic boundary layer remains at a relatively constant temperature, and is
shallow and well mixed with strong capping inversions. Power spectra of surface-layer wind speed sometimes show large variance
at low frequency. A scanning radiometer provides a monitoring of the vertical thermal structure with a spatial and temporal
resolution not seen before in the Arctic. There are often two inversions, an elevated main inversion and a weak surface inversion,
and occasionally additional inversions occur. Enhanced entrainment across the main inversion appears to occur during frontal
passages. Variance of the scanning radiometer temperatures occurs in large pulses rather than varying smoothly, and the height
to the maximum variance appears to be a reasonable proxy for the boundary-layer depth. |
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Keywords: | Arctic Arctic boundary layer Boundary-layer structure Capping inversion Diurnal cycle |
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