Articles | Volume 8, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-2221-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-2221-2015
Development and technical paper
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24 Jul 2015
Development and technical paper |  | 24 Jul 2015

Development of the Global Sea Ice 6.0 CICE configuration for the Met Office Global Coupled model

J. G. L. Rae, H. T. Hewitt, A. B. Keen, J. K. Ridley, A. E. West, C. M. Harris, E. C. Hunke, and D. N. Walters

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The paper presents a new sea ice configuration, GSI6.0, in the Met Office coupled atmosphere-ocean-ice model. Differences in the sea ice from a previous configuration (GSI4.0) are explained in the context of a previously published sensitivity study. In summer, Arctic sea ice is thicker and more extensive than in GSI4.0, bringing it closer to the observationally derived data sets. In winter, the Arctic ice is thicker but less extensive than in GSI4.0.