Solomon, Amy; Jozef, Gina (2024): Coupled Arctic Forecast System (CAFS) forecasts used in study evaluating atmospheric stability with MOSAiC soundings [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.964776
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Abstract:
6-hourly output from CAFS 10-day forecasts from 1 October 2019 to 12 September 2020. Dataset includes vertical profiles of temperature, specific humidity, pressure, and zonal and meridional wind speed at the Polarstern location. CAFS is an experimental fully coupled pan-Arctic short-term weather forecast model (Solomon et al., 2023) adapted from the Regional Arctic System Model (Maslowski et al., 2012). CAFS component models include the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF3.6.1) atmospheric model, the Parallel Ocean Program (POP2) model, the Los Alamos Community Ice Model (CICE5.1) sea ice model, and the NCAR Community Land Model (CLM4.5) coupled using a regionalized version of the CESM flux coupler (CPL7). CAFS is run at a 10 km horizontal resolution with 40 vertical levels, including 11 vertical levels between 12 m and 1 km. The model is initialized at 00 UTC each day with initial and lateral boundary conditions from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Global Forecast System (GFS) weather forecast model (National Centers for Environmental Information).
Related to:
Solomon, Amy; Shupe, Matthew D; Svensson, Gunilla; Barton, Neil P; Batrak, Yurii; Bazile, Eric; Day, Jonathan J; Doyle, James D; Frank, Helmut P; Keeley, Sarah; Remes, Teresa; Tolstykh, Mikhail (2023): The winter central Arctic surface energy budget: A model evaluation using observations from the MOSAiC campaign. Elementa - Science of the Anthropocene, 11(1), 00104, https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2022.00104
References:
Maslowski, Wieslaw; Clement Kinney, Jaclyn; Higgins, Matthew; Roberts, Andrew (2012): The Future of Arctic Sea Ice. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 40(1), 625-654, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-042711-105345
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Funding:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), grant/award no. 80NSSC19M0194: NASA Center for Advanced Measurements in Extreme Environments
National Science Foundation (NSF), grant/award no. OPP-1805569: Analysis to evaluate and improve model performance in the Central Arctic: Unique perspectives from autonomous platforms during MOSAiC
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 84.092712 * Median Longitude: 51.659069 * South-bound Latitude: 75.344800 * West-bound Longitude: -19.106020 * North-bound Latitude: 88.933750 * East-bound Longitude: 136.953700
Date/Time Start: 2019-10-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2020-09-12T00:00:00
Event(s):
PS122/1-track * Latitude Start: 69.679550 * Longitude Start: 18.996650 * Latitude End: 86.593190 * Longitude End: 119.241500 * Date/Time Start: 2019-09-20T17:30:00 * Date/Time End: 2019-12-13T09:04:45 * Location: Arctic Ocean * Campaign: PS122/1 (MOSAiC20192020) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Underway cruise track measurements (CT) * Comment: Tromsø - Arctic Ocean, MOSAiC Leg 1
PS122/2-track * Latitude Start: 86.593183 * Longitude Start: 119.242046 * Latitude End: 88.591065 * Longitude End: 55.585682 * Date/Time Start: 2019-12-13T09:04:00 * Date/Time End: 2020-02-24T08:59:59 * Location: Arctic Ocean * Campaign: PS122/2 (MOSAiC20192020) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Underway cruise track measurements (CT)
PS122/3-track * Latitude Start: 88.591064 * Longitude Start: 55.585572 * Latitude End: 78.234121 * Longitude End: 15.624074 * Date/Time Start: 2020-02-24T09:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2020-06-04T06:30:00 * Location: Arctic Ocean * Campaign: PS122/3 (MOSAiC20192020) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Underway cruise track measurements (CT)
Parameter(s):
| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DATE/TIME | Date/Time | Solomon, Amy | Geocode | ||
| 2 | LATITUDE | Latitude | Solomon, Amy | Geocode | ||
| 3 | LONGITUDE | Longitude | Solomon, Amy | Geocode | ||
| 4 | Model output, NetCDF format | Model output NetCDF | Solomon, Amy | |||
| 5 | Model output, NetCDF format (File Size) | Model output NetCDF (Size) | Bytes | Solomon, Amy |
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
Status:
Curation Level: Basic curation (CurationLevelB)
Size:
348 data points