Skill metrics for evaluation and comparison of sea ice models

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 5910-5931

  Dukhovskoy, Dmitry S ^a   Ubnoske, Jonathan ^a   Blanchard Wrigglesworth, Edward ^b   Hiester, Hannah R ^a   Proshutinsky, Andrey ^c  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

model skill assessment; sea ice model; sea ice model validation

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ICE FIELD; MATRIX; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEA ICE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VALUATION;

EID: 84945448057     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JC010989     Document Type: Article

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