Application of an ice-ocean coupled model to Bohai Sea ice simulation -- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology,2021,39(1):1-13

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	Bin JIA, Xue'en CHEN. Application of an ice-ocean coupled model to Bohai Sea ice simulation[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2021, 39(1): 1-13

Application of an ice-ocean coupled model to Bohai Sea ice simulation

Bin JIA, Xue'en CHEN

College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China

Abstract:

The HAMSOM (Hamburg Shelf Ocean Model), a high-resolution regional ice-ocean coupled model, was applied to investigate the seasonal evolution of Bohai Sea ice for winter 2015/2016. HAMSOM was initialized with monthly climatological temperature and salinity data from WOA13 and driven by hourly meteorological data obtained from the NCEP above the sea surface and tides at the open boundary. The ice model used here is a modified Hibler-type dynamic-thermodynamic sea ice model based upon viscous-plastic rheology. The ice extent, concentration, area, thickness, length of ice season as well as the distance between the top of Liaodong Bay (North China) and the outer ice edge line were simulated and compared with the observed data. Three types of modeling experiments were carried out to investigate the effects of wind, tide, and both wind and tide on Bohai Sea ice. The results show that wind, as both a dynamic and a thermodynamic factor, has a significant impact on the ice thickness, ice area, and ice-freezing and ice breakup dates as well as the ice velocity, while tides are a dynamic factor that influences only the ice velocity. During the severe ice period, the wind speed intensity increased by 25%, the average ice thickness thickened by approximately 4.0 cm in Liaodong Bay, approximately 2.1 cm in Bohai Bay and approximately 2.5 cm in Laizhou Bay, and the total ice coverage area and total ice actual area increased by about 2×10⁴ km² and 1.4×10⁴ km², respectively. While the tidal amplitude intensity increased by 25%, the average ice velocity increased by approximately 0.1 m/s.

Key words: Bohai Sea ice|ice-ocean coupled model|effects of wind and tides

Received: 2019-06-22 Revised: 2019-09-06

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