Evaluation of the atmosphere–land–ocean–sea ice interface processes in the Regional Arctic System Model version 1  (RASM1) using local and globally gridded observations

Brunke, Michael A.; Cassano, John J.; Dawson, Nicholas; DuVivier, Alice K.; Gutowski Jr., William J.; Hamman, Joseph; Maslowski, Wieslaw; Nijssen, Bart; Reeves Eyre, J. E. Jack; Renteria, José C.; Roberts, Andrew; Zeng, Xubin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4817-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4817-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4817-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 12

Model evaluation paper

|

04 Dec 2018

Model evaluation paper |

| 04 Dec 2018

Evaluation of the atmosphere–land–ocean–sea ice interface processes in the Regional Arctic System Model version 1 (RASM1) using local and globally gridded observations

Michael A. Brunke, John J. Cassano, Nicholas Dawson, Alice K. DuVivier, William J. Gutowski Jr., Joseph Hamman, Wieslaw Maslowski, Bart Nijssen, J. E. Jack Reeves Eyre, José C. Renteria, Andrew Roberts, and Xubin Zeng

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4817-2018-supplement

Data sets

ERA-Interim Project, Monthly Means European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts https://doi.org/10.5065/D68050NT

NOAA/NSIDC Climate Data Record of Passive Microwave Sea Ice Concentration W. Meier, F. Fetterer, M. Savoie, S. Mallory, R. Duerr, and J. Stroeve https://doi.org/10.7265/N59P2ZTG

Short summary

The Regional Arctic System Model version 1 (RASM1) was recently developed for high-resolution simulation of the coupled atmosphere–ocean–sea ice–land system in the Arctic. Its simulation of the atmosphere–land–ocean–sea ice interface is evaluated by using the spread in recent reanalyses and a global Earth system model as baselines. Such comparisons reveal that RASM1 simulates precipitation well and improves the simulation of surface fluxes over sea ice.