IcePAC – a probabilistic tool to study sea ice spatio-temporal dynamics: application to the Hudson Bay area

Gignac, Charles; Bernier, Monique; Chokmani, Karem

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-451-2019

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-451-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-451-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

Research article

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06 Feb 2019

Research article |

| 06 Feb 2019

IcePAC – a probabilistic tool to study sea ice spatio-temporal dynamics: application to the Hudson Bay area

Charles Gignac, Monique Bernier, and Karem Chokmani

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Final revised paper (published on 06 Feb 2019)
Preprint (discussion started on 10 Sep 2018)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of IcePAC by Gignac et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 01 Oct 2018
- AC1: 'ANSWERS TO REVIEWER #1', Charles Gignac, 04 Dec 2018
RC2: 'Review of “IcePAC – a Probabilistic Tool to Study Sea Ice Spatiotemporal Dynamic: Application to the Hudson Bay Area, Northeastern Canada”', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Oct 2018
- AC2: 'ANSWERS TO REVIEWER #2', Charles Gignac, 04 Dec 2018
RC3: 'Review of “IcePAC – a probabilistic tool to study sea ice spatiotemporal dynamic: application to the Hudson Bay area, Northeastern Canada by Gignac et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 16 Oct 2018
- AC3: 'ANSWERS TO REVIEWER #3', Charles Gignac, 04 Dec 2018
RC4: 'Review of "IcePAC – a Probabilistic Tool to Study Sea Ice Spatiotemporal Dynamic: Application to the Hudson Bay area, Northeastern Canada"', Anonymous Referee #4, 20 Oct 2018
- AC4: 'ANSWERS TO REVIEWER #4', Charles Gignac, 04 Dec 2018
RC5: 'Review of IcePAC - Hudson Bay', Anonymous Referee #5, 23 Oct 2018
- AC5: 'ANSWERS TO REVIEWER #5', Charles Gignac, 04 Dec 2018

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Charles Gignac on behalf of the Authors (17 Dec 2018) Author's response

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (02 Jan 2019) by John Yackel

ED: Publish as is (16 Jan 2019) by John Yackel

AR by Charles Gignac on behalf of the Authors (25 Jan 2019)

Short summary

The IcePAC tool is made to estimate the probabilities of specific sea ice conditions based on historical sea ice concentration time series from the EUMETSAT OSI-409 product (12.5 km grid), modelled using the beta distribution and used to build event probability maps, which have been unavailable until now. Compared to the Canadian ice service atlas, IcePAC showed promising results in the Hudson Bay, paving the way for its usage in other regions of the cryosphere to inform stakeholders' decisions.