Articles | Volume 10, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2999-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2999-2016
Research article
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09 Dec 2016
Research article |  | 09 Dec 2016

Quantification of ice production in Laptev Sea polynyas and its sensitivity to thin-ice parameterizations in a regional climate model

Oliver Gutjahr, Günther Heinemann, Andreas Preußer, Sascha Willmes, and Clemens Drüe

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AR by Oliver Gutjahr on behalf of the Authors (22 Sep 2016)  Author's response    Manuscript
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RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (10 Oct 2016)
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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (10 Oct 2016) by Dirk Notz
AR by Oliver Gutjahr on behalf of the Authors (19 Oct 2016)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (09 Nov 2016) by Dirk Notz
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We estimated the formation of new sea ice within polynyas in the Laptev Sea (Siberia) with the regional climate model COSMO-CLM at 5 km horizontal resolution. Fractional sea ice and the representation of thin ice is often neglected in atmospheric models. Our study demonstrates, however, that the way thin ice in polynyas is represented in the model considerably affects the amount of newly formed sea-ice and the air–ice–ocean heat flux. Both processes impact the Arctic sea-ice budget.