Skill improvement of dynamical seasonal Arctic sea ice forecasts

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 5124-5132

  Krikken, Folmer ^a,b   Schmeits, Maurice ^b   Vlot, Willem ^a,b   Guemas, Virginie ^c,d,e   Hazeleger, Wilco ^a,b,f  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^c Institut Catalá de Ciéncies del Clima IC3   (Spain)

^d CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^e BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

^f NETHERLANDS ESCIENCE CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arctic sea ice; bias correction; ensemble calibration; seasonal forecasting

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; FORECASTING; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC SEA ICE; BIAS CORRECTION; BIAS-CORRECTION METHODS; CALIBRATION METHOD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; SEASONAL FORECASTING; SEASONAL FORECASTS;

ICE;

EID: 84971287137     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL068462     Document Type: Article

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