Impact of the assimilation of sea ice concentration data on an atmosphere-ocean-sea ice coupled simulation of the Arctic Ocean climate

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-40

  Toyoda, Takahiro ^a   Awaji, Toshiyuki ^b,c   Sugiura, Nozomi ^b   Masuda, Shuhei ^b   Igarashi, Hiromichi ^b   Sasaki, Yuji ^b   Hiyoshi, Yoshihisa ^b   Ishikawa, Yoichi ^c   Mochizuki, Takashi ^b   Sakamoto, Takashi T ^b   Tatebe, Hiroaki ^b   Komuro, Yoshiki ^b   Suzuki, Tatsuo ^b   Nishimura, Teruyuki ^b   Mori, Masato ^d   Chikamoto, Yoshimitsu ^d   Yasunaka, Sayaka ^d   Imada, Yukiko ^d   Arai, Miki ^d   Watanabe, Masahiro ^d   Shiogama, Hideo ^e   Nozawa, Toru ^e   Hasegawa, Akira ^e   Ishii, Masayoshi ^a,b   Kimoto, Masahide ^d   more..

^a JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

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EID: 84878308564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13496476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/sola.2011-010     Document Type: Article

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