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+## How do unresolved variations in sea ice thickness alter the surface energy balance in the Arctic in climate models
+### *Richard Davy*
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+Unresolved variability in the sea ice thickness leads to increases in the heat flux through ice due to the non-linear dependency of fluxes on ice thickness. 
+Here we test the effect of the new high resolution sea ice thickness dataset on the climatology of fluxes through sea ice and the resultant change in the near-surface air temperature using an ice-atmosphere model, NeXtSIM-ABL. 
+In the configuration we use here this model has fixed sea ice conditions, uses the ERA5 reanalysis to force the atmosphere at a height of 850hPa, and has an atmospheric boundary layer and sea ice thermodynamic model to diagnose the temperatures in the ice and atmosphere. 
+We use a tiling system to simulate an atmospheric column over ice and open water seperately. 
+Here we use two different specifications of the surface conditions (using the high-resolution and low-resolution sea ice thickness data) and for the ERA5 forcing we take a climatology of the March and September conditions to drive the upper atmosphere conditions. 
+We then compare the derived surface fluxes and surface air temperatures to quantify the effect of including high resolution sea ice thickness information on the surface climate.
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+[back to the Workshop page](https://nansencenter.github.io/superice-nersc/workshop/)