The coastal streamflow flux in the Regional Arctic System Model
Abstract
The coastal streamflow flux from the Arctic drainage basin is an important driver of dynamics in the coupled ice-ocean system. Comprising more than one third of the total freshwater flux into the Arctic Ocean, streamflow is a key component of the regional and global freshwater cycle. To better represent the coupling of the streamflow flux to the ocean, we have developed and applied the RVIC streamflow routing model within the Regional Arctic System Model (RASM). The RASM is a high-resolution regional Earth System Model whose domain includes all of the Arctic drainage basin. Here in this paper, we introduce the RVIC streamflow routing model, detailing its application within RASM and its advancements in terms of representing high-resolution streamflow processes. We evaluate model simulated streamflow relative to in situ observations and demonstrate a method for improving model performance using a simple optimization procedure. We also present a new, spatially and temporally consistent, high-resolution data set of coastal freshwater fluxes for the Arctic drainage basin and surrounding areas that is based on a fully coupled RASM simulation and intended for use in Arctic Ocean modeling applications. This data set is evaluated relative to other coastal streamflow data sets commonly used by themore »
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- Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States). Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering; National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO (United States)
- Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States). Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA (United States). Dept. of Oceanography
- Polish Inst. of Oceanology, Sopot (Poland)
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- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States); Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1466299
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1374924
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-07ER64460; SC0006856; SC0005783; SC0005522
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- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Geophysical Research. Oceans
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 122; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2169-9275
- Publisher:
- American Geophysical Union
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Arctic; climate; hydrology; streamflow; runoff; streamflow routing
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Hamman, Joseph, Nijssen, Bart, Roberts, Andrew, Craig, Anthony, Maslowski, Wieslaw, and Osinski, Robert. The coastal streamflow flux in the Regional Arctic System Model. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1002/2016JC012323.
Hamman, Joseph, Nijssen, Bart, Roberts, Andrew, Craig, Anthony, Maslowski, Wieslaw, & Osinski, Robert. The coastal streamflow flux in the Regional Arctic System Model. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JC012323
Hamman, Joseph, Nijssen, Bart, Roberts, Andrew, Craig, Anthony, Maslowski, Wieslaw, and Osinski, Robert. Fri .
"The coastal streamflow flux in the Regional Arctic System Model". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JC012323. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1466299.
@article{osti_1466299,
title = {The coastal streamflow flux in the Regional Arctic System Model},
author = {Hamman, Joseph and Nijssen, Bart and Roberts, Andrew and Craig, Anthony and Maslowski, Wieslaw and Osinski, Robert},
abstractNote = {The coastal streamflow flux from the Arctic drainage basin is an important driver of dynamics in the coupled ice-ocean system. Comprising more than one third of the total freshwater flux into the Arctic Ocean, streamflow is a key component of the regional and global freshwater cycle. To better represent the coupling of the streamflow flux to the ocean, we have developed and applied the RVIC streamflow routing model within the Regional Arctic System Model (RASM). The RASM is a high-resolution regional Earth System Model whose domain includes all of the Arctic drainage basin. Here in this paper, we introduce the RVIC streamflow routing model, detailing its application within RASM and its advancements in terms of representing high-resolution streamflow processes. We evaluate model simulated streamflow relative to in situ observations and demonstrate a method for improving model performance using a simple optimization procedure. We also present a new, spatially and temporally consistent, high-resolution data set of coastal freshwater fluxes for the Arctic drainage basin and surrounding areas that is based on a fully coupled RASM simulation and intended for use in Arctic Ocean modeling applications. This data set is evaluated relative to other coastal streamflow data sets commonly used by the ocean modeling community. We demonstrate that the RASM-simulated streamflow flux better represents the annual cycle than existing data sets, especially in ungauged areas. Finally, we assess the impact that streamflow has on the coupled ice-ocean system, finding that the presence of streamflow leads to reduced sea surface salinity, increased sea surface temperatures, and decreased sea ice thickness.},
doi = {10.1002/2016JC012323},
journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research. Oceans},
number = 3,
volume = 122,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Feb 03 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Fri Feb 03 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}
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Figure 1: Coupling schematic for the Regional Arctic System Model. Circles represent model components (e.g., RVIC) and arrows between circles represent flux and state variables shared between components (e.g., streamflow). The colors of the arrows reflect the source of the fluxes and state variables.
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