Challenges and prospects in ocean circulation models

B Fox-Kemper, A Adcroft, CW Böning… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
We revisit the challenges and prospects for ocean circulation models following Griffies et al..
Over the past decade, ocean circulation models evolved through improved understanding …

Should sea-ice modeling tools designed for climate research be used for short-term forecasting?

E Hunke, R Allard, P Blain, E Blockley… - Current Climate Change …, 2020‏ - Springer
In theory, the same sea-ice models could be used for both research and operations, but in
practice, differences in scientific and software requirements and computational and human …

Quality assessment of the TOPAZ4 reanalysis in the Arctic over the period 1991–2013

J **e, L Bertino, F Counillon, KA Lisæter… - Ocean Science, 2017‏ - os.copernicus.org
Long dynamical atmospheric reanalyses are widely used for climate studies, but data-
assimilative reanalyses of ocean and sea ice in the Arctic are less common. TOPAZ4 is a …

Intercomparison of the Arctic sea ice cover in global ocean–sea ice reanalyses from the ORA-IP project

M Chevallier, GC Smith, F Dupont, JF Lemieux… - Climate Dynamics, 2017‏ - Springer
Ocean–sea ice reanalyses are crucial for assessing the variability and recent trends in the
Arctic sea ice cover. This is especially true for sea ice volume, as long-term and large scale …

Status and future of global and regional ocean prediction systems

M Tonani, M Balmaseda, L Bertino… - Journal of …, 2015‏ - Taylor & Francis
Operational evolution of global and regional ocean forecasting systems has been extremely
significant in recent years. Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) Oceanview …

Sea ice circulation around the Beaufort Gyre: The changing role of wind forcing and the sea ice state

AA Petty, JK Hutchings… - Journal of …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Sea ice drift estimates from feature tracking of satellite passive microwave data are used to
investigate seasonal trends and variability in the ice circulation around the Beaufort Gyre …

[HTML][HTML] Feature-based comparison of sea ice deformation in lead-permitting sea ice simulations

N Hutter, M Losch - The Cryosphere, 2020‏ - tc.copernicus.org
The sea ice modeling community is progressing towards pan-Arctic simulations that
explicitly resolve leads in the simulated sea ice cover. Evaluating these simulations against …

Presentation of the dynamical core of neXtSIM, a new sea ice model

S Bouillon, P Rampal - Ocean Modelling, 2015‏ - Elsevier
The dynamical core of a new sea ice model is presented. It is based on the Elasto–Brittle
rheology, which is inspired by progressive damage models used for example in rock …

Impact of assimilating a merged sea-ice thickness from CryoSat-2 and SMOS in the Arctic reanalysis

J **e, F Counillon, L Bertino - The Cryosphere, 2018‏ - tc.copernicus.org
Accurately forecasting the sea-ice thickness (SIT) in the Arctic is a major challenge. The new
SIT product (referred to as CS2SMOS) merges measurements from the CryoSat-2 and …

Multivariate state and parameter estimation with data assimilation applied to sea-ice models using a Maxwell elasto-brittle rheology

Y Chen, P Smith, A Carrassi, I Pasmans… - The …, 2024‏ - tc.copernicus.org
In this study, we investigate the fully multivariate state and parameter estimation through
idealised simulations of a dynamics-only model that uses the novel Maxwell elasto-brittle …