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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-3671-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-3671-2018
Research article
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26 Nov 2018
Research article |  | 26 Nov 2018

Impact of assimilating a merged sea-ice thickness from CryoSat-2 and SMOS in the Arctic reanalysis

Jiping Xie, François Counillon, and Laurent Bertino

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We use the winter sea-ice thickness dataset CS2SMOS merged from two satellites SMOS and CryoSat-2 for assimilation into an ice–ocean reanalysis of the Arctic, complemented by several other ocean and sea-ice measurements, using an Ensemble Kalman Filter. The errors of sea-ice thickness are reduced by 28% and the improvements persists through the summer when observations are unavailable. Improvements of ice drift are however limited to the Central Arctic.