Sea ice forecast verification in the Canadian Global Ice Ocean Prediction System

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 142, Issue 695, 2016, Pages 659-671

  Smith, Gregory C ^a   Roy, François ^a   Reszka, Mateusz ^a   Surcel Colan, Dorina ^a   He, Zhongjie ^a   Deacu, Daniel ^a   Belanger, Jean Marc ^a   Skachko, Sergey ^b,c   Liu, Yimin ^b   Dupont, Frédéric ^a   Lemieux, Jean François ^a   Beaudoin, Christiane ^a   Tranchant, Benoit ^d   Drévillon, Marie ^e   Garric, Gilles ^e   Testut, Charles Emmanuel ^e   Lellouche, Jean Michel ^e   Pellerin, Pierre ^a   Ritchie, Harold ^a   Lu, Youyu ^b   Davidson, Fraser ^b   Buehner, Mark ^a   Caya, Alain ^a   Lajoie, Manon ^a   more..

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^c BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

^d BIRA IASB ^*  (France)

^e MERCATOR OCÉAN   (France)

Author keywords

Canadian; Data assimilation; Global; Ocean modelling; Operational oceanography; Polar prediction; Sea ice modelling; Verification

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FORECASTING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL; SURFACE WATERS; VERIFICATION;

CANADIAN; DATA ASSIMILATION; GLOBAL; OCEAN MODELLING; OPERATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY;

ICE;

DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; MODELING; OCEANOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CANADA;

EID: 84929430917     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2555     Document Type: Article

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