Seasonal forecasts of Arctic sea ice initialized with observations of ice thickness

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 21, 2012, Pages

  Lindsay, R ^a   Haas, C ^b   Hendricks, S ^c   Hunkeler, P ^c   Kurtz, N ^d   Paden, J ^e   Panzer, B ^e   Sonntag, J ^d   Yungel, J ^d   Zhang, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; NASA; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC SEA ICE; ICE THICKNESS; ICE-OCEAN MODELS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; PACIFIC SECTOR; REANALYSIS; SEASONAL FORECASTS;

ICE CONTROL;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; ICE THICKNESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA ICE; SEASONALITY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC SECTOR; PACIFIC SECTOR; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84869380394     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053576     Document Type: Article

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