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Articles | Volume 13, issue 10
Articles | Volume 13, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-4773-2020
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Articles | Volume 13, issue 10
Model evaluation paper
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05 Oct 2020
Model evaluation paper |  | 05 Oct 2020

Impact of the ice thickness distribution discretization on the sea ice concentration variability in the NEMO3.6–LIM3 global ocean–sea ice model

Eduardo Moreno-Chamarro, Pablo Ortega, and François Massonnet

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Climate models need to capture sea ice complexity to represent it realistically. Here we assess how distributing sea ice in discrete thickness categories impacts how sea ice variability is simulated in the NEMO3.6–LIM3 model. Simulations and satellite observations are compared by using k-means clustering of sea ice concentration in winter and summer between 1979 and 2014 at both poles. Little improvements in the modeled sea ice lead us to recommend using the standard number of five categories.
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