Validation of the sea ice surface albedo scheme of the regional climate model HIRHAM–NAOSIM using aircraft measurements during the ACLOUD/PASCAL campaigns

Jäkel, Evelyn; Stapf, Johannes; Wendisch, Manfred; Nicolaus, Marcel; Dorn, Wolfgang; Rinke, Annette

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1695-2019

Articles | Volume 13, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1695-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1695-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 6

Research article

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26 Jun 2019

Research article |

| 26 Jun 2019

Validation of the sea ice surface albedo scheme of the regional climate model HIRHAM–NAOSIM using aircraft measurements during the ACLOUD/PASCAL campaigns

Evelyn Jäkel, Johannes Stapf, Manfred Wendisch, Marcel Nicolaus, Wolfgang Dorn, and Annette Rinke

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review for Jäkel et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Mar 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to RC#1', Evelyn Jäkel, 26 Apr 2019
RC2: 'Review for Jäkel et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 21 Mar 2019
- AC2: 'Reply to RC#2', Evelyn Jäkel, 26 Apr 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Evelyn Jäkel on behalf of the Authors (26 Apr 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (13 May 2019) by Xavier Fettweis

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (17 May 2019)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (20 May 2019) by Xavier Fettweis

AR by Evelyn Jäkel on behalf of the Authors (23 May 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (27 May 2019) by Xavier Fettweis

AR by Evelyn Jäkel on behalf of the Authors (27 May 2019) Manuscript

Short summary

The sea ice surface albedo parameterization of a coupled regional climate model was validated against aircraft measurements performed in May–June 2017 north of Svalbard. The albedo parameterization was run offline from the model using the measured parameters surface temperature and snow depth to calculate the surface albedo and the individual fractions of the ice surface subtypes. An adjustment of the variables and additionally accounting for cloud cover reduced the root-mean-squared error.