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DOI	10.5194/tc-12-1499-2018
	The influence of atmospheric grid resolution in a climate model-forced ice sheet simulation
	Lofverstrom M.; Liakka J.
发表日期	2018
ISSN	19940416
卷号	12 期号:4
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.
学科领域	accuracy assessment; atmospheric general circulation model; climate forcing; climate modeling; Last Glacial Maximum; Laurentide Ice Sheet; mass balance; parameterization; simulation; timescale; North America; Siberia
语种	英语
scopus关键词	accuracy assessment; atmospheric general circulation model; climate forcing; climate modeling; Last Glacial Maximum; Laurentide Ice Sheet; mass balance; parameterization; simulation; timescale; North America; Siberia
来源期刊	Cryosphere
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/119169
作者单位	National Center for Atmospheric Research, 3090 Center Green Dr., Boulder, CO 80301, United States; Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lofverstrom M.,Liakka J.. The influence of atmospheric grid resolution in a climate model-forced ice sheet simulation[J],2018,12(4).
APA	Lofverstrom M.,&Liakka J..(2018).The influence of atmospheric grid resolution in a climate model-forced ice sheet simulation.Cryosphere,12(4).
MLA	Lofverstrom M.,et al."The influence of atmospheric grid resolution in a climate model-forced ice sheet simulation".Cryosphere 12.4(2018).