Predictability of the Arctic sea ice edge

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1642-1650

  Goessling, H F ^a   Tietsche, S ^b   Day, J J ^c   Hawkins, E ^c   Jung, T ^a,d  

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

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arctic; climate model; forecast verification; predictability; sea ice edge

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; ERRORS; FORECASTING; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC SEA ICE; FORECAST VERIFICATIONS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; ICE CONCENTRATION; PREDICTABILITY; SEA ICE EXTENT; SEA-ICE EDGE;

ICE;

CLIMATE MODELING; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; SEA ICE; SEASONALITY;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84959421533     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL067232     Document Type: Article

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