Sensitivity of simulated wintertime Arctic atmosphere to vertical resolution in the ARPEGE/IFS model |
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Authors: | Øyvind Byrkjedal Igor Esau Nils Gunnar Kvamstø |
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Affiliation: | (1) Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, University of Bergen, Allegaten 55, 5007 Bergen, Norway;(2) Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Allegaten 70, 5007 Bergen, Norway;(3) Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Thormoehlensgate 47, 5006 Bergen, Norway;(4) Kjeller Vindteknikk, PO-Box 122, 2027 Kjeller, Norway |
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Abstract: | The current state-of-the-art general circulation models, including several of those used by the IPCC, show considerable biases in the simulated present day high-latitude climate compared to observations and reanalysis data. These biases are most pronounced during the winter season. We here employ ideal vertical profiles of temperature and wind from turbulence-resolving simulations to perform a priori studies of the first-order eddy-viscosity closure scheme employed in the ARPEGE/IFS model. This reveals that the coarse vertical resolution (31 layers) of the model cannot be expected to realistically resolve the Arctic stable boundary layer. The curvature of the Arctic inversion and thus also the vertical turbulent-exchange processes cannot be reproduced by the coarse vertical mesh employed. To investigate how turbulent vertical exchange processes in the Arctic boundary layer are represented by the model parameterization, a simulation with high vertical resolution (90 layers in total) in the lower troposphere is performed. Results from the model simulations are validated against data from the ERA-40 reanalysis. The dependence of the surface air temperature on surface winds, surface energy fluxes, free atmosphere stability and boundary layer height is investigated. The coarse-resolution run reveals considerable biases in these parameters, and in their physical relations to surface air temperature. In the simulation with fine vertical resolution, these biases are clearly reduced. The physical relation between governing parameters for the vertical turbulent-exchange processes improves in comparison with ERA-40 data. |
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Keywords: | GCM Large eddy simulation Parameterization Arctic Stable boundary layer ARPEGE |
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