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- Title
Seasonal Forecasts of the Pan-Arctic Sea Ice Extent Using a GCM-Based Seasonal Prediction System.
- Authors
Chevallier, Matthieu; Salas y Mélia, David; Voldoire, Aurore; Déqué, Michel; Garric, Gilles
- Abstract
An ocean-sea ice model reconstruction spanning the period 1990-2009 is used to initialize ensemble seasonal forecasts with the Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques Coupled Global Climate Model version 5.1 (CNRM-CM5.1) coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model. The aim of this study is to assess the skill of fully initialized September and March pan-Arctic sea ice forecasts in terms of climatology and interannual anomalies. The predictions are initialized using 'full field initialization' of each component of the system. In spite of a drift due to radiative biases in the coupled model during the melt season, the full initialization of the sea ice cover on 1 May leads to skillful forecasts of the September sea ice extent (SIE) anomalies. The skill of the prediction is also significantly high when considering anomalies of the SIE relative to the long-term linear trend. It confirms that the anomaly of spring sea ice cover in itself plays a role in preconditioning a September SIE anomaly. The skill of predictions for March SIE initialized on 1 November is also encouraging, and it can be partly attributed to persistent features of the fall sea ice cover. The present study gives insight into the current ability of state-of-the-art coupled climate systems to perform operational seasonal forecasts of the Arctic sea ice cover up to 5 months in advance.
- Subjects
SEA ice; OCEANOGRAPHY; CLIMATE change; CLIMATOLOGY; ATMOSPHERIC sciences; METEOROLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Climate, 2013, Vol 26, Issue 16, p6092
- ISSN
0894-8755
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00612.1