Articles | Volume 3, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-3-713-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-3-713-2022
Research article
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08 Jul 2022
Research article |  | 08 Jul 2022

Benefits and challenges of dynamic sea ice for weather forecasts

Jonathan J. Day, Sarah Keeley, Gabriele Arduini, Linus Magnusson, Kristian Mogensen, Mark Rodwell, Irina Sandu, and Steffen Tietsche

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Interactive discussion

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on wcd-2022-5', Anonymous Referee #1, 25 Feb 2022
  • RC2: 'Comment on wcd-2022-5', Anonymous Referee #2, 09 Mar 2022
  • AC1: 'Comment on wcd-2022-5', Jonathan Day, 29 Apr 2022

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
AR by Jonathan Day on behalf of the Authors (29 Apr 2022)  Author's response    Author's tracked changes    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (02 May 2022) by Paulo Ceppi
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (02 May 2022)
ED: Publish as is (13 May 2022) by Paulo Ceppi
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Short summary
A recent drive to develop seamless forecasting systems has culminated in the development of weather forecasting systems that include a coupled representation of the atmosphere, ocean and sea ice. Before this, sea ice and sea surface temperature anomalies were typically fixed throughout a given forecast. We show that the dynamic coupling is most beneficial during periods of rapid ice advance, where persistence is a poor forecast of the sea ice and leads to large errors in the uncoupled system.