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DOI	10.5194/tc-15-31-2021
	Evaluation of sea-ice thickness from four reanalyses in the Antarctic Weddell Sea
	Shi Q.; Yang Q.; Mu L.; Wang J.; Massonnet F.; Mazloff M.R.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	19940416
起始页码	31
结束页码	47
卷号	15 期号:1
英文摘要	Ocean-sea-ice coupled models constrained by various observations provide different ice thickness estimates in the Antarctic. We evaluate contemporary monthly ice thickness from four reanalyses in the Weddell Sea: The German contribution of the project Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean Version 2 (GECCO2), the Southern Ocean State Estimate (SOSE), the Ensemble Kalman Filter system based on the Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean (NEMO-EnKF) and the Global Ice-Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (GIOMAS). The evaluation is performed against reference satellite and in situ observations from ICESat-1, Envisat, upward-looking sonars and visual ship-based sea-ice observations. Compared with ICESat-1, NEMO-EnKF has the highest correlation coefficient (CC) of 0.54 and lowest root mean square error (RMSE) of 0.44 m. Compared with in situ observations, SOSE has the highest CC of 0.77 and lowest RMSE of 0.72 m. All reanalyses underestimate ice thickness near the coast of the western Weddell Sea with respect to ICESat-1 and in situ observations even though these observational estimates may be biased low. GECCO2 and NEMO-EnKF reproduce the seasonal variation in first-year ice thickness reasonably well in the eastern Weddell Sea. In contrast, GIOMAS ice thickness performs best in the central Weddell Sea, while SOSE ice thickness agrees most with the observations from the southern coast of the Weddell Sea. In addition, only NEMO-EnKF can reproduce the seasonal evolution of the large-scale spatial distribution of ice thickness, characterized by the thick ice shifting from the southwestern and western Weddell Sea in summer to the western and northwestern Weddell Sea in spring. We infer that the thick ice distribution is correlated with its better simulation of northward ice motion in the western Weddell Sea. These results demonstrate the possibilities and limitations of using current sea-ice reanalysis for understanding the recent variability of sea-ice volume in the Antarctic. © 2021 Author(s).
英文关键词	correlation; estimation method; ice thickness; ICESat; in situ measurement; Kalman filter; observational method; seasonal variation; spatial distribution; Southern Ocean; Weddell Sea
语种	英语
来源期刊	Cryosphere
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/202429
作者单位	School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai, 519082, China; Qingdao Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China; Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research, Earth and Life Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, CA, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Shi Q.,Yang Q.,Mu L.,et al. Evaluation of sea-ice thickness from four reanalyses in the Antarctic Weddell Sea[J],2021,15(1).
APA	Shi Q.,Yang Q.,Mu L.,Wang J.,Massonnet F.,&Mazloff M.R..(2021).Evaluation of sea-ice thickness from four reanalyses in the Antarctic Weddell Sea.Cryosphere,15(1).
MLA	Shi Q.,et al."Evaluation of sea-ice thickness from four reanalyses in the Antarctic Weddell Sea".Cryosphere 15.1(2021).