Real-time Data Assimilation of Ice Concentration into a Coupled Ice/Ocean Forecast System

Since the late 1980's, ice forecasting systems developed by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have been predicting conditions in the Arctic Ocean and several of its marginal seas for use by the U.S. Navy. Each day a 120-hour forecast of ice drift, ice thickness and ice concentration is run op...

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Main Authors: Posey, P. G., Metzger, E. J., Wallcraft, A. J., Smedstad, O. M., Phelps, W. M.
Other Authors: NAVAL RESEARCH LAB STENNIS SPACE CENTER MS OCEANOGRAPHY DIV
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2010
Subjects:
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
*ICE
METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITES
IMAGES
ICE FORECASTING
CONCENTRATION(COMPOSITION)
HYBRID SYSTEMS
ASSIMILATION
OCEAN MODELS
SYMPOSIA
INTERPOLATION
DATA ASSIMILATION
CICE(COMMUNITY ICE CODE)
HYCOM(HYBRID COORDINATE OCEAN MODEL)
NCODA(NAVY COUPLED OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATION)
DMSP(DEFENSE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE PROGRAM)
SSM/I(SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE/IMAGER)
PE0602435N
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Ice
permafrost
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA513212
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA513212
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Summary:Since the late 1980's, ice forecasting systems developed by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have been predicting conditions in the Arctic Ocean and several of its marginal seas for use by the U.S. Navy. Each day a 120-hour forecast of ice drift, ice thickness and ice concentration is run operationally at the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO). Presently, a high resolution Arctic two-way coupled ice/ocean nowcast/forecast system based on the Community Ice CodE (CICE) and the HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM) is being tested using the Navy Coupled Ocean Data Assimilation (NCODA) system. Ice concentration data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) is used as initialization for the model's ice concentration field. Results from the coupled system both with and without the use of ice concentration data for initialization will be discussed.

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