Sentences with phrase «including sea ice thickness»

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Note, that the ocean heat content includes loss of sea ice area, but not loss of sea ice thickness.

Almost all state - of - the - art AOGCMs now include more elaborate sea ice dynamics and some now include several sea ice thickness categories and relatively advanced thermodynamics.

The goal, the scientists say, is to compare independent methods of gauging ice trends from factors including sea temperature, ice thickness and cycles of atmospheric pressure and winds around the Arctic.

... A new sea - ice albedo parameterization scheme has been developed and implemented in ECHAM5 general circulation model, and includes important components like albedo decay due to snow aging, ice thickness dependency and an explicit treatment of melt pond albedo.

Improvements in seasonal forecasting practice arising from recent research include accurate initialization of snow and frozen soil, accounting for observational uncertainty in forecast verification, and sea - ice thickness initialization using statistical predictors available in real time.

Over the sea ice field the observations include: sea ice freeboard height and hence sea ice thickness from radar altimetry; sea ice surface temperature and sea ice drift from respectively infrared radiometer and imaging spectrometer under cloud free conditions.

• Expand our existing Unified Sea Ice Thickness Climate Data Record (Sea Ice CDR) to include ICESat, IceBridge, and CryoSat - 2 estimates of the ice thickneIce Thickness Climate Data Record (Sea Ice CDR) to include ICESat, IceBridge, and CryoSat - 2 estimates of the ice tThickness Climate Data Record (Sea Ice CDR) to include ICESat, IceBridge, and CryoSat - 2 estimates of the ice thickneIce CDR) to include ICESat, IceBridge, and CryoSat - 2 estimates of the ice thickneice thicknessthickness.

The Outlook also underscored important lessons for improvements in future efforts, including: a need for additional work on remote sensing of spring and summer sea ice conditions; sea ice thickness data; and more formal forecasting and evaluation methods.

These OMITTED / POORLY Represented processes include the following: oceanic eddies, tides, fronts, buoyancy - driven coastal and boundary currents, cold halocline, dense water plumes and convection, double diffusion, surface / bottom mixed layer, sea ice — thickness distribution, concentration, deformation, drift and export, fast ice, snow cover, melt ponds and surface albedo, atmospheric loading, clouds and fronts, ice sheets / caps and mountain glaciers, permafrost, river runoff, and air — sea ice — land interactions and coupling.

This month's Outlook reports also include a more detailed discussion of sea ice thickness information provided from field measurements and model results.