Communications Earth & Environment (Sep 2022)

Decadal Sea Ice Prediction in the West Antarctic Seas with Ocean and Sea Ice Initializations

  • Yushi Morioka,
  • Doroteaciro Iovino,
  • Andrea Cipollone,
  • Simona Masina,
  • Swadhin K. Behera

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00529-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Decadal sea ice variability in the west Antarctic seas can be skillfully predicted, with highest skill in a decadal reforecast experiment where sea surface temperature, sea ice concentration and subsurface ocean temperature and salinity are initialized from observations.