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Drowning by Numbers: Progress Towards CCSM 4.0
David Bailey, NCAR
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9/30/08!
PCWG plans for CCSM 4.0
Science frozen by September 30, 2008.
• CICE 4.0
• Delta-Eddington shortwave
• Melt ponds
• Snow-aging / snow model ?
Scene from the film Drowning by Numbers (1988).
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Sea Ice Melt Ponds• Ponds are prevalent on sea ice• Influence surface albedo and
ice mass budget• Code has been added to
explicitly simulate melt ponds and their albedo effects
Albedo Evolution During SHEBA(Perovich et al. 2002)
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Melt Pond Parameterization
• Accumulate 15-65% of snow, surface ice melt, and rain into pond volume, depending on ice fraction.
• Pond fraction is reduced by snow fraction.• Compute pond area/depth from simple
empirically-based relationship.• Currently no change in fresh-water exchange.• Pond volume is advected as a CICE tracer.• Change in albedo depends on pond fraction
and / or depth.
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Pond Volume = Pond Fraction X Pond Depth
Pond Depth = 0.8 X Pond Fraction
Runoff fraction = 0.85 - 0.5 * Ice Fraction
Perovich et al. 2003 SHEBA observations
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Delta-Eddington Shortwave Radiation
• Briegleb and Light, 2007.• New shortwave radiation scheme that
computes albedos based on inherent optical properties of sea ice, snow, and ponds.
• Albedos are “tuned” by adjusting snow and ice properties based on a standard deviation from SHEBA observations and offline RT calculations.
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Previous Experiments
• CCSM 3.0 experiments with and without melt ponds showed a strong sensitivity to the prescribed runoff fraction.
• DE requires a melt pond fraction and depth (prescribed by default).
• Experiments comparing DE vs CCSM shortwave (without explicit ponds) showed generally thinner ice.
• Need to include rain.
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CCSM 3.5 Experiments (atm-ice-som)
1 x CO2 2 x CO2
No MP f35.002 f35.002co2
MP f35.002mp
f35.002de
f35.002mpco2
f35.002deco2
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Results (Radiation / Melt Ponds - Present Day)
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Results (Radiation / Melt Ponds - Future)
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Results (Radiation / Melt Ponds - Present vs Future)
Melt Pond Area (%)
f35.002deco2-f35.002de
f35.002de
f35.002deco2
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Results (Radiation / Melt Ponds - Present vs Future)
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Summary
• Implicit melt ponds in CCSM3 essentially captured the basic albedo effects compared to this simple explicit melt pond formulation.
• While DE and CCSM shortwave can be tuned to give similar results, DE provides more generality.
• Climate sensitivity in all configurations is similar.• In a 2 x CO2 world, the shift to more rain and less
snow along with enhanced surface ice melt appears to mostly compensate the pond accumulation.
• Generally fewer ponds in the future, likely due to ice-fraction dependent runoff.
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Why use Delta-Eddington and Melt Ponds?
• More physical.
• Allows for addition of soot, algae, etc.
• Handles multiple snow layers.
• Addition of snow-aging easily works with radiation.
• Interaction with more complicated melt ponds?
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Work in Progress
• CICE 4.0 numerical / software engineering enhancements.
• DE performance and tuning.
• Melt ponds and DE soon to be the default in CCSM4 fully-coupled runs.
• Snow aging / snow model?