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Title: Development of global sea ice 6.0 CICE configuration for the Met Office global coupled model

Journal Article · · Geoscientific Model Development Discussions (Online)
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  1. Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter (United Kingdom)
  2. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
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The new sea ice configuration GSI6.0, used in the Met Office global coupled configuration GC2.0, is described and the sea ice extent, thickness and volume are compared with the previous configuration and with observationally-based datasets. In the Arctic, the sea ice is thicker in all seasons than in the previous configuration, and there is now better agreement of the modelled concentration and extent with the HadISST dataset. In the Antarctic, a warm bias in the ocean model has been exacerbated at the higher resolution of GC2.0, leading to a large reduction in ice extent and volume; further work is required to rectify this in future configurations.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396
OSTI ID:
1208882
Journal Information:
Geoscientific Model Development Discussions (Online), Vol. 8, Issue 3; ISSN 1991-962X
Publisher:
European Geosciences UnionCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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