Published April 22, 2019 | Version v1
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Arctic Ocean freshwater dynamics: transient response to increasing river runoff and precipitation [dataset]

  • 1. University of Southampton
  • 2. Stockholm University
  • 3. Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

Description

This dataset contains the underlying data for the manuscript Brown et al., Arctic Ocean freshwater dynamics: transient response to increasing river runoff and precipitation, submitted to JGR-Oceans

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Descriptors in the filenames, shown below as *, correspond to the various simulations, as follows:

Simulations forced with JRA-25 reanalysis data:
AR: Unperturbed control simulation
B1: Simulation involving a step change in river runoff of -30%  
C1: Simulation involving a step change in river runoff of +30% 
B7: Simulation involving a step change in precipitation of -30% 
C8: Simulation involving a step change in precipitation of +30% 

Simulations forced with the CORE-II climatology:
AR_CORE: Unperturbed control simulation 
P-30_CORE: Simulation involving a step change in precipitation of -30% 
P+30_CORE: Simulation involving a step change in precipitation of +30% 

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The files named as fwvolume_Sref35_*.nc contain the variables:

freshwater:   horizontally-integrated liquid freshwater volume in m^3
freshwater_pos:  as before, but including only positive values in the integration
h_f:  basin-mean freshwater height in m
h_f_pos:  as before, but including only positive values in the integration

The reference salinity used in each case is 35.

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The files named as freshwater_h_f_*.nc contain horizontally-gridded, depth-integrated liquid freshwater heights in m.  The integration is made to a depth of 276.68m.

h_f_34p8: freshwater height, using a reference salinity of 34.8 
h_f_34p8_pos: as before, but including only positive values in the integration
h_f_35: freshwater height, using a reference salinity of 35 
h_f_35_pos: as before, but including only positive values in the integration

The grid for these files is grid.nc

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The files named as fluxes_ed3_*.nc contain strait-integrated volume fluxes (in m^3 s^-1) into and out of the Arctic domain: 

f: liquid volume flux
fw: freshwater, with variables numbered 1 using a reference salinity of 34.8 and those numbered 2 using a reference salinity of 35
ice: sea ice volume flux

The first dimension, ngate, of the variables indicates the strait:

1) Fram Strait
2) Barents Sea Opening
3) Bering Strait
4) Amundsen Gulf
5) McClure Strait
6) Canadian Arctic Archipelago
7) Nares Strait

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Sea ice volumes (in m^3) for the JRA-25 forced simulations are contained in the files named area_int_*.nc with variable name "ivol"

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Basin-integrated liquid freshwater volumes for a further series of JRA-forced runoff perturbation experiments are contained within the file FWLvol_AO_Sref35_runoff.mat:

R_10: a step increase in runoff of 10%
R_60: a step increase in runoff of 60%
R_100: a step increase in runoff of 100%

The reference salinity is 35 and depth of integration 276.68m

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