The Regional Ice Prediction System (RIPS): Verification of forecast sea ice concentration

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 142, Issue 695, 2016, Pages 632-643

  Lemieux, Jean François ^a   Beaudoin, Christiane ^a   Dupont, Frédéric ^a   Roy, François ^a   Smith, Gregory C ^a   Shlyaeva, Anna ^a   Buehner, Mark ^a   Caya, Alain ^a   Chen, Jack ^a   Carrieres, Tom ^a   Pogson, Lynn ^a   Derepentigny, Patricia ^b   Plante, André ^a   Pestieau, Paul ^a   Pellerin, Pierre ^a   Ritchie, Hal ^a   Garric, Gilles ^c   Ferry, Nicolas ^c  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MERCATOR OCÉAN   (France)

Author keywords

Arctic Ocean; Sea ice; Sea ice forecasting; Verification method

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FORECASTING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SURFACE WATERS; VELOCITY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ICE FORECASTING; MARITIME TRANSPORT; OFFSHORE EXPLORATION; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); THICKNESS DISTRIBUTIONS; VERIFICATION METHOD;

ICE;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FORECASTING METHOD; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; PREDICTION; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADA;

EID: 84926626313     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2526     Document Type: Article

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