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Articles | Volume 16, issue 4
Articles | Volume 16, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1483-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1483-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 4
Research article
 | 
27 Apr 2022
Research article |  | 27 Apr 2022

Influences of changing sea ice and snow thicknesses on simulated Arctic winter heat fluxes

Laura L. Landrum and Marika M. Holland

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1483-2022-supplement

Data sets

Large Ensemble Project: a community resource for studying climate change in the presence of internal climate variability (data available at: http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/projects/ community-projects/LENS/) J. E. Kay, C. Deser, A. Phillips, A. Mai, C. Hannay, G. Strand, J. Arblaster, S. Bates, G. Danabasoglu, J. Edwards, M. Holland, P. Kushner, J.-F. Lamarque, D. Lawrence, K. Lindsay, A. Middleton, E. Munoz, R. Neale, K. Oleson, L. Polvani, and M. Vertenstein https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00255.1

CESM Large Ensemble Community Project C. Deser and J. E. Kay http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/projects/ community-projects/LENS/

Model code and software

Scripts for figures and analysis for “Influences of changing sea ice and snow thicknesses on winter Arctic heat fluxes” Laura Landrum https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6336145

Interactive computing environment

The NCAR Command Language (NCL) NCAR https://doi.org/10.5065/D6WD3XH5

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Short summary
High-latitude Arctic wintertime sea ice and snow insulate the relatively warmer ocean from the colder atmosphere. As the climate warms, wintertime Arctic conductive heat fluxes increase even when the sea ice concentrations remain high. Simulations from the Community Earth System Model Large Ensemble (CESM1-LE) show how sea ice and snow thicknesses, as well as the distribution of these thicknesses, significantly impact large-scale calculations of wintertime surface heat budgets in the Arctic.
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