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01 Mar 2024
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Effects of Arctic sea-ice concentration on turbulent surface fluxes in four atmospheric reanalyses

Tereza Uhlíková, Timo Vihma, Alexey Yu Karpechko, and Petteri Uotila

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A prerequisite for understanding the local, regional, and hemispherical impacts of Arctic sea-ice decline on the atmosphere is to quantify the effects of sea-ice concentration (SIC) on the sensible and latent heat fluxes in the Arctic. We analyse these effects utilising four data sets called atmospheric reanalyses, and we evaluate uncertainties in these effects arising from inter-reanalysis differences in SIC and in the sensitivity of the latent and sensible heat fluxes to SIC.