An intercomparison study of ice thickness models in the Netherlands

E. I. F. de Bruijn; F. C. Bosveld; E. V. van der Plas

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v66.21244

An intercomparison study of ice thickness models in the Netherlands

Tellus

Volume 66 (2014): Issue 1

By: E. I. F. de Bruijn, F. C. Bosveld and E. V. van der Plas

Open Access

|Dec 2014

Abstract

Lake models account for the thermodynamic interaction between fresh water lakes and the atmosphere. During frost periods they predict ice thickness. A stand-alone version of the Fresh water Lake model (FLake) has been compared with the operational ice-growth model at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute. Both models have been driven with various input data like observations and data from the Hirlam Aladin Research on Mesoscale Operational NWP In Europe (HARMONIE) model. The lake ice models are validated with indirect ice thickness measurements at Cabauw during the winter of 1996/1997 and with data from a voluntary observer network in the province of Friesland (The Netherlands) during the winter of 2012. FLake is shown to have predictive power and is competitive with the operational ice-growth model.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v66.21244 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554

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Language: English

Page range: 21244 - 21244

Submitted on: Apr 26, 2013

Accepted on: Jan 7, 2014

Published on: Dec 1, 2014

Published by: Stockholm University Press

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

ice thickness,

lake models,

FLake,

Cabauw,

validation

© 2014 E. I. F. de Bruijn, F. C. Bosveld, E. V. van der Plas, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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