A review on Arctic sea-ice predictability and prediction on seasonal to decadal time-scales

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 142, Issue 695, 2016, Pages 546-561

  Guemas, Virginie ^a,b   Blanchard Wrigglesworth, Edward ^c   Chevallier, Matthieu ^b,d   Day, Jonathan J ^e   Déqué, Michel ^b   Doblas Reyes, Francisco J ^a,f   Fučkar, Neven S ^a   Germe, Agathe ^b,g   Hawkins, Ed ^e   Keeley, Sarah ^h   Koenigk, Torben ⁱ   Salas y Mélia, David ^b   Tietsche, Steffen ^e  

^a Climate Dynamics and Impacts Unit Institut Català de Ciències del Clima IC3   (Spain)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d MERCATOR OCÉAN   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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

^g UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

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

ⁱ SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Arctic; Ensembles; Initialization; Perfect model; Predictability; Prediction; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; BUDGET CONTROL; FORECASTING; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC; ENSEMBLES; INITIALIZATION; PERFECT MODEL; PREDICTABILITY;

ICE;

EID: 84904843709     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2401     Document Type: Article

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