Applying a Mesoscale Atmospheric Model to Svalbard Glaciers
The mesoscale atmospheric model WRF is used over three Svalbard glaciers. The simulations are done with a setup of the model corresponding to the state-of-the-art model for polar conditions, Polar WRF, and it was validated using surface observations. The ERA-Interim reanalysis was used for boundary...
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| description | The mesoscale atmospheric model WRF is used over three Svalbard glaciers. The simulations are done with a setup of the model corresponding to the state-of-the-art model for polar conditions, Polar WRF, and it was validated using surface observations. The ERA-Interim reanalysis was used for boundary forcing and the model was used with three nested smaller domains, 24 and 8 km, and 2.7 km resolution. The model was used for a two-year period as well as for a more detailed study using 3 summer and winter months. In addition sensitivity tests using finer horizontal and vertical resolution in the boundary layer and using different physics schemes were performed. Temperature and incoming short- and long-wave radiation were skillfully simulated, with lower agreement between measured and modelled wind speed. Increased vertical resolution improved the frequency distributions of the wind speed and the temperature. The choice of different physics schemes only slightly changed the model results. The polar-optimized microphysics scheme outperformed a slightly simpler microphysics scheme, but the two alternative and more sophisticated PBL schemes improved the model score. A PBL scheme developed for very stable stratifications (QNSE) proved to be better in the winter. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-cbf3444a04634ac183cdf6d2c1a8ff2e2025-08-20T02:19:57ZengWileyAdvances in Meteorology1687-93091687-93172012-01-01201210.1155/2012/321649321649Applying a Mesoscale Atmospheric Model to Svalbard GlaciersBjörn Claremar0Friedrich Obleitner1Carleen Reijmer2Veijo Pohjola3Anna Waxegård4Florian Karner5Anna Rutgersson6Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Villavägen 16, 75236 Uppsala, SwedenInstitute of Meteorology and Geophysics, Innsbruck University, 6020 Innsbruck, AustriaInstitute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University, 3508 TC Utrecht, The NetherlandsDepartment of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Villavägen 16, 75236 Uppsala, SwedenDepartment of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Villavägen 16, 75236 Uppsala, SwedenInstitute of Meteorology and Geophysics, Innsbruck University, 6020 Innsbruck, AustriaDepartment of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Villavägen 16, 75236 Uppsala, SwedenThe mesoscale atmospheric model WRF is used over three Svalbard glaciers. The simulations are done with a setup of the model corresponding to the state-of-the-art model for polar conditions, Polar WRF, and it was validated using surface observations. The ERA-Interim reanalysis was used for boundary forcing and the model was used with three nested smaller domains, 24 and 8 km, and 2.7 km resolution. The model was used for a two-year period as well as for a more detailed study using 3 summer and winter months. In addition sensitivity tests using finer horizontal and vertical resolution in the boundary layer and using different physics schemes were performed. Temperature and incoming short- and long-wave radiation were skillfully simulated, with lower agreement between measured and modelled wind speed. Increased vertical resolution improved the frequency distributions of the wind speed and the temperature. The choice of different physics schemes only slightly changed the model results. The polar-optimized microphysics scheme outperformed a slightly simpler microphysics scheme, but the two alternative and more sophisticated PBL schemes improved the model score. A PBL scheme developed for very stable stratifications (QNSE) proved to be better in the winter.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/321649 |
| spellingShingle | Björn Claremar Friedrich Obleitner Carleen Reijmer Veijo Pohjola Anna Waxegård Florian Karner Anna Rutgersson Applying a Mesoscale Atmospheric Model to Svalbard Glaciers Advances in Meteorology |
| title | Applying a Mesoscale Atmospheric Model to Svalbard Glaciers |
| title_full | Applying a Mesoscale Atmospheric Model to Svalbard Glaciers |
| title_fullStr | Applying a Mesoscale Atmospheric Model to Svalbard Glaciers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Applying a Mesoscale Atmospheric Model to Svalbard Glaciers |
| title_short | Applying a Mesoscale Atmospheric Model to Svalbard Glaciers |
| title_sort | applying a mesoscale atmospheric model to svalbard glaciers |
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