Improving Arctic sea ice edge forecasts by assimilating high horizontal resolution sea ice concentration data into the US Navy's ice forecast systems

Cryosphere

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1735-1745

  Posey, P G ^a   Metzger, E J ^a   Wallcraft, A J ^a   Hebert, D A ^a   Allard, R A ^a   Smedstad, O M ^b   Phelps, M W ^c   Fetterer, F ^d   Stewart, J S ^e   Meier, W N ^f   Helfrich, S R ^g  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STENNIS SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c JACOBS TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d National Snow and Ice Data Center   (United States)

^e J Scott Stewart of Exploratory Thinking   (United States)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g National Ice Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMSR-E; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; FORECASTING METHOD; GLOBAL OCEAN; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84940665798     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-9-1735-2015     Document Type: Article

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