Ensemble of sea ice initial conditions for interannual climate predictions

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 9-10, 2014, Pages 2813-2829

  Guemas, Virginie ^a,b   Doblas Reyes, Francisco J ^a,c   Mogensen, Kristian ^d   Keeley, Sarah ^d   Tang, Yongming ^d  

^a Unitat de Dinàmica I Impacte Climàtic UDIC Institut Català de Ciències del Clima   (Spain)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

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

Author keywords

Antarctic; Arctic; Climate prediction; Initialization; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895932923     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2095-7     Document Type: Article

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