Presentation and evaluation of the Arctic sea ice forecasting system neXtSIM-F
The neXtSIM-F forecast system consists of a stand-alone sea ice model, neXtSIM, forced by the TOPAZ ocean forecast and the ECMWF atmospheric forecast, combined with daily data assimilation. It was tested for the northern winter of 2018–2019 with different data being assimilated and was found to perf...
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ftcopernicus:oai:publications.copernicus.org:tcd77716 2023-05-15T15:06:30+02:00 Presentation and evaluation of the Arctic sea ice forecasting system neXtSIM-F Williams, Timothy Korosov, Anton Rampal, Pierre Ólason, Einar 2019-07-17 info:eu-repo/semantics/application/pdf https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2019-154 https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2019-154/ eng eng info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/607476 doi:10.5194/tc-2019-154 https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2019-154/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess eISSN: 1994-0424 info:eu-repo/semantics/Text 2019 ftcopernicus https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2019-154 2020-07-20T16:22:44Z The neXtSIM-F forecast system consists of a stand-alone sea ice model, neXtSIM, forced by the TOPAZ ocean forecast and the ECMWF atmospheric forecast, combined with daily data assimilation. It was tested for the northern winter of 2018–2019 with different data being assimilated and was found to perform well. Despite drift not being assimilated in our system, we obtain quite good agreement between observations, comparing well to more sophisticated coupled ice-ocean forecast systems. The RMSE in drift speed is around 3 km/day for the first three days, climbing to about 4 km/day for the next day or two; computing the RMSE in the total drift adds about 1 km/day to the error in speed. The drift bias remains close to zero over the whole period from Nov 2018–Apr 2019. The neXtSIM-F forecast system assimilates OSISAF sea ice concentration products (both SSMI and AMSR2) and SMOS sea ice thickness by modifying the initial conditions daily and adding a compensating heat flux to prevent removed ice growing back too quickly. This greatly improved the agreement of these quantities with observations for the first 3–4 days of the forecast. Other/Unknown Material Arctic Sea ice Copernicus Publications: E-Journals Arctic |
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The neXtSIM-F forecast system consists of a stand-alone sea ice model, neXtSIM, forced by the TOPAZ ocean forecast and the ECMWF atmospheric forecast, combined with daily data assimilation. It was tested for the northern winter of 2018–2019 with different data being assimilated and was found to perform well. Despite drift not being assimilated in our system, we obtain quite good agreement between observations, comparing well to more sophisticated coupled ice-ocean forecast systems. The RMSE in drift speed is around 3 km/day for the first three days, climbing to about 4 km/day for the next day or two; computing the RMSE in the total drift adds about 1 km/day to the error in speed. The drift bias remains close to zero over the whole period from Nov 2018–Apr 2019. The neXtSIM-F forecast system assimilates OSISAF sea ice concentration products (both SSMI and AMSR2) and SMOS sea ice thickness by modifying the initial conditions daily and adding a compensating heat flux to prevent removed ice growing back too quickly. This greatly improved the agreement of these quantities with observations for the first 3–4 days of the forecast. |
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Presentation and evaluation of the Arctic sea ice forecasting system neXtSIM-F |
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