Articles | Volume 13, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-123-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-123-2017
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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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.