Quality assessment of the TOPAZ4 reanalysis in the Arctic over the period 1991–2013

Xie, Jiping; Bertino, Laurent; Counillon, François; Lisæter, Knut A.; Sakov, Pavel

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-123-2017

Articles | Volume 13, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-123-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-123-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 1

Research article

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13 Feb 2017

Research article |

| 13 Feb 2017

Quality assessment of the TOPAZ4 reanalysis in the Arctic over the period 1991–2013

Jiping Xie, Laurent Bertino, François Counillon, Knut A. Lisæter, and Pavel Sakov

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Final revised paper (published on 13 Feb 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 27 Jun 2016)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 26 Jul 2016
- AC1: 'Short response to the comments reviewer#1', Jiping Xie, 04 Nov 2016
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 07 Oct 2016
- AC2: 'Initial response to the comments of Reviewer#2', Jiping Xie, 04 Nov 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Jiping Xie on behalf of the Authors (22 Dec 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (09 Jan 2017) by Eric J.M. Delhez

AR by Jiping Xie on behalf of the Authors (11 Jan 2017)

Short summary

The Arctic Ocean plays an important role in the global climate system, but the concerned interpretation about its changes is severely hampered by the sparseness of the observations of sea ice and ocean. The focus of this study is to provide a quantitative assessment of the performance of the TOPAZ4 reanalysis for ocean and sea ice variables in the pan-Arctic region (north of 63 °N) in order to guide the user through its skills and limitations.