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

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

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-2221-2015

Articles | Volume 8, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-2221-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-2221-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 7

Development and technical paper

|

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

Download

Final revised paper (published on 24 Jul 2015)
Preprint (discussion started on 05 Mar 2015)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

- Printer-friendly version

- Supplement

RC C233: 'Referee comments on the discussion paper', Wolfgang Dorn, 25 Mar 2015
- AC C1269: 'Response to Wolfgang Dorn', Jamie Rae, 30 Jun 2015
RC C506: 'Review of Development of Global Sea Ice 6.0 CICE configuration for the Met Office Global Coupled Model', David Bailey, 22 Apr 2015
- AC C1270: 'Response to David Bailey', Jamie Rae, 30 Jun 2015

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Jamie Rae on behalf of the Authors (30 Jun 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (03 Jul 2015) by Anne Le Brocq

AR by Jamie Rae on behalf of the Authors (07 Jul 2015)

Short summary

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.