Pan-arctic and regional sea ice predictability: Initialization month dependence

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4371-4390

  Day, J J ^a   Tietsche, S ^a   Hawkins, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctic, Sea ice, Climate prediction, Forecast verification skill, Seasonal forecasting, Decadal variability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; REGIONAL PLANNING; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC SEA ICE; ARCTIC SHIPPING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT; REGIONAL ANALYSIS; SEA ICE EXTENT; SEASONAL ICE ZONES;

FORECASTING;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECADAL VARIATION; MARGINAL SEA; SEA ICE; VOLUME;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84902106533     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00614.1     Document Type: Article

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