A model reconstruction of the Antarctic sea ice thickness and volume changes over 1980-2008 using data assimilation

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 64, Issue , 2013, Pages 67-75

  Massonnet, François ^a   Mathiot, Pierre ^b   Fichefet, Thierry ^a   Goosse, Hugues ^a   König Beatty, Christof ^a   Vancoppenolle, Martin ^c   Lavergne, Thomas ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^d NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Antarctic; Data assimilation; EnKF; Sea ice thickness and volume; Southern Ocean; Trends; Variability

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENKF; SEA ICE THICKNESS AND VOLUMES; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TRENDS; VARIABILITY;

CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

SEA ICE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ICE COVER; ICE THICKNESS; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA ICE; TREND ANALYSIS; VOLUME CHANGE;

AMUNDSEN SEA; BELLINGSHAUSEN SEA; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 84874575532     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2013.01.003     Document Type: Article

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