Labs WMT Permafrost KudryavtsevModel1D
Introduction to Permafrost Processes - Lesson 2 Kudryavtsev Model
This lab has been designed and developed by Irina Overeem, CSDMS, University of Colorado, CO
with assistance of Kang Wang, Scott Stewart at CSDMS, University of Colorado, CO, and Elchin Jafarov, at Los Alamos National Labs, NM
Classroom organization'
This lab is the second in a series of introduction to permafrost process modeling, designed for inexperienced users. In this second lesson, we explore the Kudryavstev model and learn to use this models in the CSDMS Web Model tool (WMT). We implemented the Kudryavstev model (as formulated by Anisimov et al.1997). This series of labs is designed for inexperienced modelers to gain some experience with running a numerical model, changing model inputs, and analyzing model output. Specifically, this lab looks at what controls soil temperature and active layer thickness and compares model output with observed longterm data collected at permafrost active layer thickness monitoring sites in Fairbanks and Barrow, Alaska.
Basic theory on the Kudryavstev model is presented in these slides File:ROMS Lite Introduction.pptx.
This lab will likely take ~ 2 hours to complete in the classroom. This time assumes you now have gained some familiarity with the WMT and have learned how to set parameters, save runs, download data and look at output. If this is not the case, either start with Lab 1 in this series, or do the WMT Tutorial
Learning objectives
Skills
- familiarize with a basic configuration of the Kudryavstev Model
- hands-on experience with visualizing NetCDF time series with Panoply.
- data to model comparisons and how to think about uncertainty in data and model output.
Topical learning objectives:
- what are controls on permafrost soil temperature
- what is a steady-state model
- what are important parameters for calculating active layer thickness
- active layer thickness evolution with climate warming in two locations in Alaska
