摘要
In this paper,snow and ice thickness products derived from an updated Fast Ice Prediction System Version 2.0(FIPS V2.0)in Prydz Bay,East Antarctica,are introduced and compared with in-situ obser-vations.FIPS V2.0 is comprised of a newly-developed snowdrift parameterization compared to the original FIPS V1.0.The simulation domain covers the entire fast ice region in Prydz Bay and is config-ured to 720 grid cells,with a spatial resolution of 0.125°.The ERAInterim reanalysis from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting(ECMWF)were used as the atmospheric forcing.The in-situ observations were obtained near Zhongshan Station by the wintering team,and the measurement frequency of the snow and ice thicknesses was around one week.Both the FIPS V2.0 pro-ducts and in-situ observations introduced in this paper cover the time periods from 2012 to 2016.The primary assessments based on the in-situ observations show that FIPS V2.0 has mean biases of 0.01±0.07 m and 0.23±0.09 m for snow and ice thickness simula-tions,respectively.The results indicate that the updated FIPS V2.0 produces a reasonable snow thickness due to the newly-developed snowdrift parameterization,but it overestimates the ice thickness due to the cold bias in the air temperature forcing.These 2-D snow and ice thickness distributions provide important references for sea ice thermodynamic studies,remote sensing validations,and ice-breaker navigation assessments in this region.The dataset is avail-able at http://www.doi.org/10.11922/sciencedb.j00076.00066.
基金
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41876212,41911530769).
