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Amundsen Sea MITgcm model output forced with CESM1 historical and future climate scenarios, 1920-2100

This dataset provides model output for 20th and 21st-century ice-ocean simulations in the Amundsen Sea. The simulations are performed with the MITgcm model at 1/10 degree resolution, including components for the ocean, sea ice, and ice shelf thermodynamics. Atmospheric forcing is provided by the CESM1 climate model for the historical period (1920-2005) and four future scenarios (2006-2100), using 5-10 ensemble members each. The open ocean boundaries are forced by either the corresponding CESM1 simulation or a present-day climatology. The simulations were completed in 2022 by Kaitlin Naughten at the British Antarctic Survey (Polar Oceans team).

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Date (Creation)
2023-07-13
Date (Revision)
2023-07-13
Date (Publication)
2023-07-13
Date (released)
2023-07-13
Edition
1.0
Unique resource identifier
https://doi.org/10.5285/b692f76f-eac8-466a-a008-32e9ba3e7b44
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Unique resource identifier
GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01763
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https://data.bas.ac.uk/
Other citation details
Please cite this item as: Naughten, K., Holland, P., & De Rydt, J. (2023). Amundsen Sea MITgcm model output forced with CESM1 historical and future climate scenarios, 1920-2100 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/b692f76f-eac8-466a-a008-32e9ba3e7b44
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completed Completed
Author
  British Antarctic Survey - Naughten, Kaitlin ( Researcher )
Author
  British Antarctic Survey - Holland, Paul R. ( Researcher )
Author
  Northumbria University - De Rydt, Jan ( Researcher )
Point of contact
  NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , Cambridgeshire , CB3 0ET , United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 221400
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded As needed
Maintenance note
completed Completed
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Sea Ice
Theme
  • Amundsen Sea
  • Antarctica
  • ice shelves
  • modelling
  • ocean
  • sea ice
Place
  • Amundsen Sea Southern Ocean
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Oceanographic geographical features
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Open Government Licence v3.0
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Data supplied under Open Government Licence v3.0
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Topic category
  • Oceans
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Begin date
1920-01-01
End date
2005-12-31
Supplemental Information
It is recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of any data, and that the author be contacted with any questions regarding appropriate use. If you find any errors or omissions, please report them to polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk.
Date (Publication)
2008-11-12
Publisher
  European Petroleum Survey Group
https://www.epsg-registry.org/
Unique resource identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::3031
Version
6.18.3

Distributor

Distributor
  NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , Cambridgeshire , CB3 0ET , United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 221400
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
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Methodology:

Simulations were performed with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology general circulation model (MITgcm) version 67s, over the Amundsen Sea region (140 degrees W:80 degrees W, 76 degrees S:62 degrees S). Resolution is 1/10 degrees in the horizontal, with 50 levels in the vertical. Bathymetry and ice shelf topography were generated using BedMachine version 2. Atmospheric forcing is given by the CESM1 Large Ensemble (1920-2005 historical, 2006-2100 RCP 8.5, first 10 members), the CESM1 Medium Ensemble (2006-2080 RCP 4.5, first 10 members), the CESM1 Low Warming 2C Ensemble (2006-2100, first 10 members), and the CESM1 Low Warming 1.5C Ensemble (2006-2100, first 5 members). Lateral boundary conditions were derived from the corresponding CESM1 ensembles, except for the ''Fixed BC'' experiments which used the World Ocean Atlas 2018 for temperature and salinity, and the Biogeochemical Southern Ocean State Estimate iteration 122 for all other variables. Ice shelf buttressing diagnostic simulations were performed using the Ua ice flow model on the same domain.

Data collection:

The raw MITgcm output was converted to NetCDF using the xmitgcm python package, and then processed into timeseries, Hovmollers, and trends using the mitgcm_python library (https://github.com/knaughten/mitgcm_python).

Data quality:

Values which are identically zero or masked represent the land and ice shelf mask.

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Date stamp
2023-07-13
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Metadata standard version
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Point of contact
  NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , Cambridgeshire , CB3 0ET , United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 221400
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
 
 

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Keywords

Amundsen Sea Antarctica ice shelves modelling ocean sea ice
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Oceanographic geographical features
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Sea Ice

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