Intercomparison of the arctic sea ice cover in global ocean–sea ice reanalyses from the ora-ip project

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1107-1136

  Chevallier, Matthieu ^a   Smith, Gregory C ^b   Dupont, Frédéric ^b   Lemieux, Jean François ^b   Forget, Gael ^c   Fujii, Yosuke ^d   Hernandez, Fabrice ^e,f   Msadek, Rym ^g,h   Peterson, K Andrew ⁱ   Storto, Andrea ^j   Toyoda, Takahiro ^d   Valdivieso, Maria ^k   Vernieres, Guillaume ^l,m   Zuo, Hao ⁿ   Balmaseda, Magdalena ⁿ   Chang, You Soon ^o   Ferry, Nicolas ^e   Garric, Gilles ^e   Haines, Keith ^k   Keeley, Sarah ⁿ   Kovach, Robin M ^m   Kuragano, Tsurane ^d   Masina, Simona ^j,p   Tang, Yongming ^i,n   Tsujino, Hiroyuki ^d   Wang, Xiaochun ^q   more..

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^e MERCATOR OCÉAN   (France)

^f INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^g NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^h CERFACS   (France)

ⁱ MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^j CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^k UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^l SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^m NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

ⁿ EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^o Kongju National University   (South Korea)

^p ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^q Los Angeles   (United States)

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Author keywords

Arctic; Data assimilation; Ice; Ice thickness; Model intercomparison; Ocean reanalysis; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ORA;

EID: 85082820773     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-2985-y     Document Type: Article

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