Importance of initial conditions in seasonal predictions of Arctic sea ice extent

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 5208-5215

  Msadek, R ^a,b   Vecchi, G A ^a   Winton, M ^a   Gudgel, R G ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

initial conditions; sea ice predictions; seasonal forecast systems; state dependence predictability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC COMPONENTS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; PREDICTION MODEL; SEASONAL FORECASTS; SEASONAL PREDICTION; STATE DEPENDENCE;

SEA ICE;

ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ICE THICKNESS; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; SEA ICE; SEASONALITY;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84904777918     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060799     Document Type: Article

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