DOI: 10.5194/tc-12-1499-2018
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85045894960
论文题名: The influence of atmospheric grid resolution in a climate model-forced ice sheet simulation
作者: Lofverstrom M ; , Liakka J
刊名: Cryosphere
ISSN: 19940416
出版年: 2018
卷: 12, 期: 4 起始页码: 1499
结束页码: 1510
语种: 英语
英文摘要: Coupled climate-ice sheet simulations have been growing in popularity in recent years. Experiments of this type are however challenging as ice sheets evolve over multi-millennial timescales, which is beyond the practical integration limit of most Earth system models. A common method to increase model throughput is to trade resolution for computational efficiency (compromise accuracy for speed). Here we analyze how the resolution of an atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) influences the simulation quality in a stand-alone ice sheet model. Four identical AGCM simulations of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) were run at different horizontal resolutions: T85 (1.4°), T42 (2.8°), T31 (3.8°), and T21 (5.6°). These simulations were subsequently used as forcing of an ice sheet model. While the T85 climate forcing reproduces the LGM ice sheets to a high accuracy, the intermediate resolution cases (T42 and T31) fail to build the Eurasian ice sheet. The T21 case fails in both Eurasia and North America. Sensitivity experiments using different surface mass balance parameterizations improve the simulations of the Eurasian ice sheet in the T42 case, but the compromise is a substantial ice buildup in Siberia. The T31 and T21 cases do not improve in the same way in Eurasia, though the latter simulates the continent-wide Laurentide ice sheet in North America. The difficulty to reproduce the LGM ice sheets in the T21 case is in broad agreement with previous studies using low-resolution atmospheric models, and is caused by a substantial deterioration of the model climate between the T31 and T21 resolutions. It is speculated that this deficiency may demonstrate a fundamental problem with using low-resolution atmospheric models in these types of experiments. © Author(s) 2018. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/75369
Appears in Collections: 影响、适应和脆弱性 气候变化与战略
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作者单位: National Center for Atmospheric Research, 3090 Center Green Dr., Boulder, CO, United States; Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
Recommended Citation:
Lofverstrom M,, Liakka J. The influence of atmospheric grid resolution in a climate model-forced ice sheet simulation[J]. Cryosphere,2018-01-01,12(4)