Articles | Volume 19, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-19-1375-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-19-1375-2023
Research article
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15 Sep 2023
Research article |  | 15 Sep 2023

Bivariate sea-ice assimilation for global-ocean analysis–reanalysis

Andrea Cipollone, Deep Sankar Banerjee, Doroteaciro Iovino, Ali Aydogdu, and Simona Masina

Data sets

EUMETSAT Product Navigator - Global Sea Ice Concentration Climate Data Record v2.0 - Multimission OSISAF https://navigator.eumetsat.int/product/EO:EUM:DAT:MULT:OSI-450

IceBridge L4 Sea Ice Freeboard, Snow Depth, and Thickness N. Kurtz, M. Studinger, J. Harbeck, V. DePaul Onana, and D. Yi https://doi.org/10.5067/G519SHCKWQV6

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Short summary
Sea-ice volume is characterized by low predictability compared to the sea ice area or the extent. A joint initialization of the thickness and concentration using satellite data could improve the predictive power, although it is still absent in the present global analysis–reanalysis systems. This study shows a scheme to correct the two features together that can be easily extended to include ocean variables. The impact of such a joint initialization is shown and compared among different set-ups.