Assessing the forecast skill of Arctic sea ice extent in the GloSea4 seasonal prediction system

Verfasser / Beitragende:
[K. Peterson, A. Arribas, H. Hewitt, A. Keen, D. Lea, A. McLaren]
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
2015
Enthalten in:
Climate Dynamics, 44/1-2(2015-01-01), 147-162
Format:
Artikel (online)
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520 3 |a An assessment of the ability of the Met Office seasonal prediction system, GloSea4, to accurately forecast Arctic sea ice concentration and extent over seasonal time scales is presented. GloSea4 was upgraded in November 2010 to include the initialization of the observed sea ice concentration from satellite measurements. GloSea4 is one of only a few operational seasonal prediction systems to include both the initialization of observed sea ice followed by its prognostic determination in a coupled dynamical model of sea ice. For the forecast of the September monthly mean ice extent the best skill in GloSea4, as judged from the historical forecast period of 1996-2009, is when the system is initialized in late March and early April near to the sea ice maxima with correlation skills in the range of 0.6. In contrast, correlation skills using May initialization dates are much lower due to thinning of the sea ice at the start of the melt season which allows ice to melt too rapidly. This is likely to be due both to a systematic bias in the ice-ocean forced model as well as biases in the ice analysis system. Detailing the forecast correlation skill throughout the whole year shows that for our system, the correlation skill for ice extent at five to six months lead time is highest leading up to the September minimum (from March/April start dates) and leading up to the March maximum (from October/November start dates). Conversely, little skill is found for the shoulder seasons of November and May at any lead time. 
540 |a Her Majesty the Queen in Right of United Kingdom, 2014 
690 7 |a Arctic sea ice  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Seasonal forecasting  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Ocean and sea ice analysis  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Data assimilation  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Ice concentration  |2 nationallicence 
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700 1 |a McLaren  |D A.  |u Met Office, FitzRoy Road, EX1 3PB, Exeter, UK  |4 aut 
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