Bright Prospects for Arctic Sea Ice Prediction on Subseasonal Time Scales

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 45, Issue 18, 2018, Pages 9731-9738

  Zampieri, Lorenzo ^a   Goessling, Helge F ^a   Jung, Thomas ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arctic sea ice; sea ice verification; seamless prediction; subseasonal prediction

Indexed keywords

SEA ICE; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

ARCTIC SEA ICE; DATA ASSIMILATION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; ICE FORECASTS; OPERATIONAL FORECAST SYSTEM; SEASONAL PREDICTION; SYSTEMATIC MODELING; TIME-SCALES;

FORECASTING;

EID: 85054064341     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2018GL079394     Document Type: Article

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