The Arctic's sea ice cover: trends, variability, predictability, and comparisons to the Antarctic

MC Serreze, WN Meier - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
As assessed over the period of satellite observations, October 1978 to present, there are
downward linear trends in Arctic sea ice extent for all months, largest at the end of the melt …

A synthesis of thermodynamic ablation at ice–ocean interfaces from theory, observations and models

A Malyarenko, AJ Wells, PJ Langhorne, NJ Robinson… - Ocean Modelling, 2020 - Elsevier
Thermodynamic ablation of ice in contact with the ocean is an essential element of ice sheet
and ocean interactions but is challenging to model and quantify. Building on earlier …

[HTML][HTML] Improving Met Office seasonal predictions of Arctic sea ice using assimilation of CryoSat-2 thickness

EW Blockley, KA Peterson - The Cryosphere, 2018 - tc.copernicus.org
Interest in seasonal predictions of Arctic sea ice has been increasing in recent years owing,
primarily, to the sharp reduction in Arctic sea-ice cover observed over the last few decades …

GEOS‐S2S version 2: The GMAO high‐resolution coupled model and assimilation system for seasonal prediction

A Molod, E Hackert, Y Vikhliaev, B Zhao… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) has recently released a new
version of the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) Subseasonal to Seasonal …

Predicting september arctic sea ice: A multimodel seasonal skill comparison

M Bushuk, S Ali, DA Bailey, Q Bao… - Bulletin of the …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
This study quantifies the state of the art in the rapidly growing field of seasonal Arctic sea ice
prediction. A novel multimodel dataset of retrospective seasonal predictions of September …

Bright prospects for Arctic sea ice prediction on subseasonal time scales

L Zampieri, HF Goessling, T Jung - Geophysical Research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
With retreating sea ice and increasing human activities in the Arctic come a growing need for
reliable sea ice forecasts up to months ahead. We exploit the subseasonal‐to‐seasonal …

A mechanism for the Arctic sea ice spring predictability barrier

M Bushuk, M Winton, DB Bonan… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The decline of Arctic sea ice extent has created a pressing need for accurate seasonal
predictions of regional summer sea ice. Recent work has shown evidence for an Arctic sea …

Regional Arctic sea–ice prediction: Potential versus operational seasonal forecast skill

M Bushuk, R Msadek, M Winton, G Vecchi, X Yang… - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
Seasonal predictions of Arctic sea ice on regional spatial scales are a pressing need for a
broad group of stakeholders, however, most assessments of predictability and forecast skill …

Prediction of pan-arctic sea ice using attention-based LSTM neural networks

J Wei, R Hang, JJ Luo - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Within the rapidly changing Arctic region, accurate sea ice forecasts are of crucial
importance for navigation activities, such as the planning of ship** routes. Numerical …

A spring barrier for regional predictions of summer Arctic sea ice

DB Bonan, M Bushuk, M Winton - Geophysical Research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Seasonal forecast systems can skillfully predict summer Arctic sea ice up to 4 months in
advance. For some regions, however, there is a springtime predictability barrier that causes …