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The Regional Ice Ocean Prediction System v2: a pan-Canadian ocean analysis system using an online tidal harmonic analysis
Gregory C. Smith
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Meteorological Research Division, Environment and Climate Change
Canada (ECCC), Dorval, H9P1J3, Canada
Yimin Liu
Meteorological Research Division, Environment and Climate Change
Canada (ECCC), Dorval, H9P1J3, Canada
Mounir Benkiran
Mercator Océan International, Toulouse, France
Kamel Chikhar
Meteorological Service of Canada, ECCC, Dorval, H9P1J3, Canada
Dorina Surcel Colan
Meteorological Service of Canada, ECCC, Dorval, H9P1J3, Canada
Audrey-Anne Gauthier
Meteorological Service of Canada, ECCC, Dorval, H9P1J3, Canada
Charles-Emmanuel Testut
Mercator Océan International, Toulouse, France
Frederic Dupont
Meteorological Service of Canada, ECCC, Dorval, H9P1J3, Canada
Ji Lei
Meteorological Service of Canada, ECCC, Dorval, H9P1J3, Canada
François Roy
Meteorological Research Division, Environment and Climate Change
Canada (ECCC), Dorval, H9P1J3, Canada
Jean-François Lemieux
Meteorological Research Division, Environment and Climate Change
Canada (ECCC), Dorval, H9P1J3, Canada
Fraser Davidson
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre, Fisheries and Ocean Canada, St.
John's, Newfoundland, Canada
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Mathieu Plante, Jean-François Lemieux, L. Bruno Tremblay, Amélie Bouchat, Damien Ringeisen, Philippe Blain, Stephen Howell, Mike Brady, Alexander S. Komarov, Béatrice Duval, Lekima Yakuden, and Frédérique Labelle
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The Cryosphere, 18, 1685–1708, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-1685-2024, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-1685-2024, 2024
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Oreste Marquis, Bruno Tremblay, Jean-François Lemieux, and Mohammed Islam
The Cryosphere, 18, 1013–1032, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-1013-2024, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-1013-2024, 2024
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The Cryosphere, 14, 3465–3478, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3465-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3465-2020, 2020
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Sea ice pressure poses great risk for navigation; it can lead to ship besetting and damages. Sea ice forecasting systems can predict the evolution of pressure. However, these systems have low spatial resolution (a few km) compared to the dimensions of ships. We study the downscaling of pressure from the km-scale to scales relevant for navigation. We find that the pressure applied on a ship beset in heavy ice conditions can be markedly larger than the pressure predicted by the forecasting system.
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Canada's coastlines include diverse ocean environments. In response to the strong need to support marine activities and security, we present the first pan-Canadian operational regional ocean analysis system. A novel online tidal harmonic analysis method is introduced that uses a sliding-window approach. Innovations are compared to those from the Canadian global analysis system. Particular improvements are found near the Gulf Stream due to the higher model grid resolution.
Canada's coastlines include diverse ocean environments. In response to the strong need to...
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