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Ship-based estimates of momentum transfer coefficient over sea ice and recommendations for its parameterization
Piyush Srivastava
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School of Earth & Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
now at: Centre of Excellence in Disaster and Mitigation and Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India
Ian M. Brooks
School of Earth & Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
John Prytherch
Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Dominic J. Salisbury
School of Earth & Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Andrew D. Elvidge
School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
Ian A. Renfrew
School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
Margaret J. Yelland
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK
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The parameterization of surface turbulent fluxes over sea ice remains a weak point in weather forecast and climate models. Recent theoretical developments have introduced more extensive physics but these descriptions are poorly constrained due to a lack of observation data. Here we utilize a large dataset of measurements of turbulent fluxes over sea ice to tune the state-of-the-art parameterization of wind stress, and compare it with a previous scheme.
The parameterization of surface turbulent fluxes over sea ice remains a weak point in weather...
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