Model forecast skill and sensitivity to initial conditions in the seasonal Sea Ice Outlook

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 8042-8048

  Blanchard Wrigglesworth, E ^a   Cullather, R I ^b   Wang, W ^c   Zhang, J ^a   Bitz, C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

predictability; sea ice

Indexed keywords

ICE; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC SEA ICE; DYNAMICAL MODEL; FORECAST UNCERTAINTY; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MODEL FORECASTS; PREDICTABILITY; SEA-ICE THICKNESS; SENSITIVITY TO INITIAL CONDITIONS;

FORECASTING;

FORECASTING METHOD; HINDCASTING; MODEL TEST; PREDICTION; SEA ICE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84946926587     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL065860     Document Type: Article

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