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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-61-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-61-2022
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Research article
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06 Jan 2022
Research article |
| 06 Jan 2022
| 06 Jan 2022
Assimilation of sea ice thickness derived from CryoSat-2 along-track freeboard measurements into the Met Office's Forecast Ocean Assimilation Model (FOAM)
Emma K. Fiedler
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
Matthew J. Martin
Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
Ed Blockley
Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
Davi Mignac
Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
Nicolas Fournier
Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
Andy Ridout
Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
Andrew Shepherd
Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Rachel Tilling
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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Short summary
Sea ice thickness (SIT) observations derived from CryoSat-2 satellite measurements have been successfully used to initialise an ocean and sea ice forecasting model (FOAM). Other centres have previously used gridded and averaged SIT observations for this purpose, but we demonstrate here for the first time that SIT measurements along the satellite orbit track can be used. Validation of the resulting modelled SIT demonstrates improvements in the model performance compared to a control.
Sea ice thickness (SIT) observations derived from CryoSat-2 satellite measurements have been...
