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

<p>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 SMOS satellites on a weekly basis during the winter. The impact of assimilating CS2SMOS data is tested for the TOPAZ...

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Main Authors: J. Xie, F. Counillon, L. Bertino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2018-11-01
Series:The Cryosphere
Online Access:https://www.the-cryosphere.net/12/3671/2018/tc-12-3671-2018.pdf