Moving beyond the total sea ice extent in gauging model biases

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 2016, Pages 8965-8987

  Ivanova, Detelina P ^a,b,c   Gleckler, Peter J ^a   Taylor, Karl E ^a   Durack, Paul J ^a   Marvel, Kate D ^d  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^c BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Coupled models; General circulation models; Model comparison; Model errors; Model evaluation performance

Indexed keywords

ERROR COMPENSATION; SEA ICE;

COUPLED MODELS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MODEL COMPARISON; MODEL ERRORS; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ICE COVER; SEA ICE;

EID: 85000910651     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0026.1     Document Type: Article

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