Seasonal to interannual Arctic sea ice predictability in current global climate models

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1035-1043

  Tietsche, S ^a   Day, J J ^a   Guemas, V ^b,c   Hurlin, W J ^d   Keeley, S P E ^e   Matei, D ^f   Msadek, R ^d   Collins, M ^g   Hawkins, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b IC3 Institut Català de Ciències del Clima   (Spain)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^d Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory   (United States)

^e EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctic; global climate models; sea ice; seasonal to decadal predictability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; ERRORS; FORECASTING;

ARCTIC; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; PREDICTION ERRORS; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SEA-ICE THICKNESS; SEASONAL TO DECADAL PREDICTABILITY;

SEA ICE;

CLIMATE MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MAGNITUDE; PREDICTION; SEA ICE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84893858975     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058755     Document Type: Article

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