Evaluation of sea-ice thickness from four reanalyses in the Antarctic Weddell Sea

Shi, Qian; Yang, Qinghua; Mu, Longjiang; Wang, Jinfei; Massonnet, François; Mazloff, Matthew R.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-31-2021

Articles | Volume 15, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-31-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-31-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 1

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05 Jan 2021

Research article |

| 05 Jan 2021

Evaluation of sea-ice thickness from four reanalyses in the Antarctic Weddell Sea

Qian Shi, Qinghua Yang, Longjiang Mu, Jinfei Wang, François Massonnet, and Matthew R. Mazloff

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RC1: 'Review of “Evaluation of Sea-Ice Thickness from four reanalyses in the Antarctic Weddell Sea” by Shi et al.', Keguang Wang, 02 Jun 2020
- AC1: 'Responses to referee #1', Qinghua Yang, 14 Sep 2020
RC2: 'Review', Céline Heuzé, 26 Jun 2020
- AC2: 'Responses to referee #2', Qinghua Yang, 14 Sep 2020
RC3: 'Review of The Cryosphere Discussion submission tc-2020-71 ‘Evaluation of Sea-Ice Thickness from four reanalyses in the Antarctic Weddell Sea’', Daniel Price, 15 Jul 2020
- AC3: 'Responses to referee #3', Qinghua Yang, 14 Sep 2020

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

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (18 Sep 2020) by Yevgeny Aksenov

AR by Qinghua Yang on behalf of the Authors (21 Oct 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (29 Oct 2020) by Yevgeny Aksenov

RR by Daniel Price (02 Nov 2020)

RR by Keguang Wang (15 Nov 2020)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (19 Nov 2020) by Yevgeny Aksenov

AR by Qinghua Yang on behalf of the Authors (23 Nov 2020) Manuscript

Short summary

The ice thickness from four state-of-the-art reanalyses (GECCO2, SOSE, NEMO-EnKF and GIOMAS) are evaluated against that from remote sensing and in situ observations in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica. Most of the reanalyses can reproduce ice thickness in the central and eastern Weddell Sea but failed to capture the thick and deformed ice in the western Weddell Sea. These results demonstrate the possibilities and limitations of using current sea-ice reanalysis in Antarctic climate research.