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Development and Assessment of the ECCO2 Arctic coupled Ocean and Sea-ice model. An T. Nguyen, R. Kwok, D. Menemenlis. Nov 20 2008. 40%. Normalized Cost. Data: Sea-ice velocity, sea-ice thickness, CTD profiles, Initial conditions, Forcings Parameters:
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Development and Assessment of the ECCO2 Arctic coupled Ocean and Sea-ice model An T. Nguyen, R. Kwok, D. Menemenlis Nov 20 2008
40% Normalized Cost • Data: • Sea-ice velocity, sea-ice thickness, CTD profiles, • Initial conditions, Forcings • Parameters: • Salt-plume parameters, air / sea-ice drag coefficients, sea-ice and ocean albedos, sea-ice strength and H0, initial conditions, freshwater content, Gmredi • Solutions: • Baseline: A0 • Optimized: A1 Regional optimized solution:
Sea ice extent data A0 A1
Sea ice velocity Model minus data Passive microwave derived 1992-2002
Svalbard Arctic ocean hydrography
Arctic ocean fluxes: Bering Strait [Woodgate, 2006]
Feb’92 Feb’06 Arctic ocean flux: Fram Strait
Summary-1: 53% • Arctic Ocean: • Summer 2007 sea-ice minimum • Realistic Halocline • Freshwater: compatible with Serreze estimates • Berring Strait: all fluxes compatible with measurements from Woodgate [2006] • Fram Strait: all fluxes too low compared to Schauer [2006]