Brief communication: The challenge and benefit of using sea ice concentration satellite data products with uncertainty estimates in summer sea ice data assimilation

Data assimilation experiments that aim at improving summer ice concentration and thickness forecasts in the Arctic are carried out. The data assimilation system used is based on the MIT general circulation model (MITgcm) and a local singular evolutive interpolated Kalman (LSEIK) filter. The effect o...

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Main Authors: Q. Yang, M. Losch, S. N. Losa, T. Jung, L. Nerger, T. Lavergne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2016-04-01
Series:The Cryosphere
Online Access:http://www.the-cryosphere.net/10/761/2016/tc-10-761-2016.pdf