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On the origin of discrepancies between observed and simulated memory of Arctic Sea ice

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Giesse,  Céline
IMPRS on Earth System Modelling, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;

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Notz,  Dirk
Max Planck Research Group The Sea Ice in the Earth System, The Ocean in the Earth System, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;

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Giesse, C., Notz, D., & Baehr, J. (2021). On the origin of discrepancies between observed and simulated memory of Arctic Sea ice. Geophysical Research Letters, 48: e2020GL091784. doi:10.1029/2020GL091784.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0008-D546-9
Abstract
To investigate the inherent predictability of sea ice and its representation in climate models, we compare the seasonal-to-interannual memory of Arctic sea ice as given by lagged correlations of sea-ice area anomalies in large model ensembles (Max Planck Institute Grand Ensemble and Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6) and multiple observational products. We find that state-of-the-art climate models significantly overestimate the memory of pan-Arctic sea-ice area from the summer months into the following year. This cannot be explained by internal variability. We further show that the observed summer memory can be disentangled regionally into a reemergence of positive correlations in the perennial ice zone and negative correlations in the seasonal ice zone; the latter giving rise to the discrepancy between observations and model simulations. These findings could explain some of the predictability gap between potential and operational forecast skill of Arctic sea-ice area identified in previous studies.