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Present-day Arctic sea ice variability in the coupled ECHAM5/MPI-OM model

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Koldunov,  N. V.
IMPRS on Earth System Modelling, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;

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Stammer,  D.
Max Planck Fellows, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;
B 1 - Arctic and Permafrost, Research Area B: Climate Manifestations and Impacts, The CliSAP Cluster of Excellence, External Organizations;

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Marotzke,  J.
Director’s Research Group OES, The Ocean in the Earth System, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;

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Koldunov, N. V., Stammer, D., & Marotzke, J. (2010). Present-day Arctic sea ice variability in the coupled ECHAM5/MPI-OM model. Journal of Climate, 23, 2520-2543. doi:10.1175/2009JCLI3065.1.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0011-F613-E
Abstract
As a contribution to a detailed evaluation of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-type coupled climate models against observations, this study analyzes Arctic sea ice parameters simulated by the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) fully coupled climate model ECHAM5/Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology Hamburg Primitive Equation Ocean Model (MPI-OM) for the period from 1980 to 1999 and compares them with observations collected during field programs and by satellites. Results of the coupled run forced by twentieth-century CO2 concentrations show significant discrepancies during summer months with respect to observations of the spatial distribution of the ice concentration and ice thickness. Equally important, the coupled run lacks interannual variability in all ice and Arctic Ocean parameters. Causes for such big discrepancies arise from errors in the ECHAM5/MPI-OM atmosphere and associated errors in surface forcing fields (especially wind stress). This includes mean bias pattern caused by an artificial circulation around the geometric North Pole in its atmosphere, as well as insufficient atmospheric variability in the ECHAM5/MPI-OM model, for example, associated with Arctic Oscillation/North Atlantic Oscillation (AO/NAO). In contrast, the identical coupled ocean-ice model, when driven by NCEP-NCAR reanalysis fields, shows much increased skill in its ice and ocean circulation parameters. However, common to both model runs is too strong an ice export through the Fram Strait and a substantially biased heat content in the interior of the Arctic Ocean, both of which may affect sea ice budgets in centennial projections of the Arctic climate system