The role of atmospheric uncertainty in Arctic summer sea ice data assimilation and prediction

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 141, Issue 691, 2015, Pages 2314-2323

  Yang, Qinghua ^a,b   Losa, Svetlana N ^b   Losch, Martin ^b   Jung, Thomas ^b,c   Nerger, Lars ^b  

^a Key Laboratory of Research on Marine Hazards Forecasting   (China)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arctic; Data assimilation; Ensemble forecast; Ensemble Kalman filter; Sea ice; TIGGE

Indexed keywords

KALMAN FILTERS; MICROWAVE SENSORS; SEA ICE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; TIGGE;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; KALMAN FILTER; PREDICTION; SEA ICE; SUMMER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84941087129     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2523     Document Type: Article

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