The THINICE field campaign: Interactions between arctic cyclones, tropopause polar vortices, clouds, and sea ice in summer

Gwendal Rivière; Julien Delanoë; James D. Doyle; John Methven; Chris Barrell; Matthew Fearon; Suzanne Gray; Aaron Johnson; Olivier Jourdan; Tom Lachlan-Cope; Ian Renfrew; Ryan D. Torn; Ambrogio Volonté; Alexandra Weiss; Meryl Wimmer; Clémantyne Aubry; Antoine Baudoux; Eric Bazile; Daniel Beeden; Miriam Bennett; Kevin Biernat; Cecilia M. Bitz; Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth; Sophie Bounissou; Matthew Bray; Tomer Burg; Joseph Burzdak; Steven Businger; Peyton Capute; Christophe Caudoux; Steven Cavallo; Laure Cossalter; Capucine Cozzolino; Hannah Croad; Vincent Douet; Andrew Elvidge; Peter Finocchio; Christophe Gourbeyre; Ben Harvey; Kevin Huet; Todd Hutchinson; Russ Ladkin; Kai Marshland; Oscar Martinez-Alvarado; Guillaume Mioche; Florian Pantillon; Cameron Paquette; David B. Parsons; Ola Persson; Lea Raillard; Jean-Christophe Raut; Yann Seity; Jérémie Trules; Etienne Vignon; Xuguang Wang

doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0143.1

The THINICE field campaign: Interactions between arctic cyclones, tropopause polar vortices, clouds, and sea ice in summer

Gwendal Rivière, Julien Delanoë, James D. Doyle, John Methven, Chris Barrell, Matthew Fearon, Suzanne Gray, Aaron Johnson, Olivier Jourdan, Tom Lachlan-Cope, Ian Renfrew, Ryan D. Torn, Ambrogio Volonté, Alexandra Weiss, Meryl Wimmer, Clémantyne Aubry, Antoine Baudoux, Eric Bazile, Daniel Beeden, Miriam BennettKevin Biernat, Cecilia M. Bitz, Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, Sophie Bounissou, Matthew Bray, Tomer Burg, Joseph Burzdak, Steven Businger, Peyton Capute, Christophe Caudoux, Steven Cavallo, Laure Cossalter, Capucine Cozzolino, Hannah Croad, Vincent Douet, Andrew Elvidge, Peter Finocchio, Christophe Gourbeyre, Ben Harvey, Kevin Huet, Todd Hutchinson, Russ Ladkin, Kai Marshland, Oscar Martinez-Alvarado, Guillaume Mioche, Florian Pantillon, Cameron Paquette, David B. Parsons, Ola Persson, Lea Raillard, Jean-Christophe Raut, Yann Seity, Jérémie Trules, Etienne Vignon, Xuguang Wang

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The THINICE field campaign, based in Svalbard in August 2022, provided unique observations of summertime Arctic cyclones, their coupling with cloud cover, and their interactions with tropopause polar vortices and sea ice conditions. THINICE was motivated by the need to advance our understanding of these processes and to improve coupled models used to forecast weather and sea ice, as well as long-term projections of climate change in the Arctic. Two research aircraft were deployed with complementary instrumentation. The Service des Avions Français Instrumentés pour la Recherche en Environnement (Safire) Aerei da Trasporto Regionale 42 (ATR42) aircraft, equipped with the radar–lidar (RALI) remote sensing instrumentation and in situ cloud microphysics probes, flew in the midtroposphere to observe the wind and multiphase cloud structure of Arctic cyclones. The British Antarctic Survey Meteorological Airborne Science Instrumentation (MASIN) aircraft flew at low levels measuring sea ice properties, including surface brightness temperature, albedo and roughness, and the turbulent fluxes that mediate exchange of heat and momentum between the atmosphere and the surface. Long-duration instrumented balloons, operated by WindBorne Systems, sampled meteorological conditions within both cyclones and tropospheric polar vortices across the Arctic. Several novel findings are highlighted. Intense, shallow low-level jets along warm fronts were observed within three Arctic cyclones using the Doppler radar and turbulence probes. A detailed depiction of the interweaving layers of ice crystals and supercooled liquid water in mixed-phase clouds is revealed through the synergistic combination of the Doppler radar, the lidar, and in situ microphysical probes. Measurements of near-surface turbulent fluxes combined with remote sensing measurements of sea ice properties are being used to characterize atmosphere–sea ice interactions in the marginal ice zone.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	E2330-E2354
Number of pages	25
Journal	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Volume	105
Issue number	12
Early online date	10 Dec 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0143.1
Publication status	Published - Dec 2024

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Rivière, G., Delanoë, J., Doyle, J. D., Methven, J., Barrell, C., Fearon, M., Gray, S., Johnson, A., Jourdan, O., Lachlan-Cope, T., Renfrew, I., Torn, R. D., Volonté, A., Weiss, A., Wimmer, M., Aubry, C., Baudoux, A., Bazile, E., Beeden, D., ... Wang, X. (2024). The THINICE field campaign: Interactions between arctic cyclones, tropopause polar vortices, clouds, and sea ice in summer. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 105(12), E2330-E2354. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0143.1

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