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An anatomy of Arctic sea ice forecast biases in the seasonal prediction system with EC-Earth by Cruz-García, Rubén, Ortega, Pablo, Guemas, Virginie, Acosta Navarro, Juan C., Massonnet, François, Doblas-Reyes, Francisco J.

“…The quality of initial conditions (ICs) in climate predictions controls the level of skill. Both the use of the latest high-quality observations and of the…”
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Influence of the representation of landfast ice on the simulation of the Arctic sea ice and Arctic Ocean halocline by Sterlin, Jean, Orval, Tim, Lemieux, Jean-François, Rousset, Clément, Fichefet, Thierry, Massonnet, François, Raulier, Jonathan

“…Landfast ice is near-motionless sea ice attached to the coast. Despite its potential for modifying sea ice and ocean properties, most state-of-the-art sea ice…”
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A model reconstruction of the Antarctic sea ice thickness and volume changes over 1980–2008 using data assimilation by Massonnet, François, Mathiot, Pierre, Fichefet, Thierry, Goosse, Hugues, König Beatty, Christof, Vancoppenolle, Martin, Lavergne, Thomas

“…► Assimilation of sea ice concentration in a global ocean–sea ice model with EnKF. ► Improvement of simulated Southern Ocean sea ice concentration and…”
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Quantifying climate feedbacks in polar regions by Goosse, Hugues, Kay, Jennifer E., Armour, Kyle C., Bodas-Salcedo, Alejandro, Chepfer, Helene, Docquier, David, Jonko, Alexandra, Kushner, Paul J., Lecomte, Olivier, Massonnet, François, Park, Hyo-Seok, Pithan, Felix, Svensson, Gunilla, Vancoppenolle, Martin

“…The concept of feedback is key in assessing whether a perturbation to a system is amplified or damped by mechanisms internal to the system. In polar regions,…”
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Antarctic Sea Ice Area in CMIP6 by Roach, Lettie A., Dörr, Jakob, Holmes, Caroline R., Massonnet, François, Blockley, Edward W., Notz, Dirk, Rackow, Thomas, Raphael, Marilyn N., O'Farrell, Siobhan P., Bailey, David A., Bitz, Cecilia M.

“…Fully coupled climate models have long shown a wide range of Antarctic sea ice states and evolution over the satellite era. Here, we present a high‐level…”
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Projected decline in European bumblebee populations in the twenty-first century by Ghisbain, Guillaume, Thiery, Wim, Massonnet, François, Erazo, Diana, Rasmont, Pierre, Michez, Denis, Dellicour, Simon

“…Habitat degradation and climate change are globally acting as pivotal drivers of wildlife collapse, with mounting evidence that this erosion of biodiversity…”
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Arctic sea-ice change tied to its mean state through thermodynamic processes by Massonnet, François, Vancoppenolle, Martin, Goosse, Hugues, Docquier, David, Fichefet, Thierry, Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, Edward

“…One of the clearest manifestations of ongoing global climate change is the dramatic retreat and thinning of the Arctic sea-ice cover 1 . While all…”
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Editorial: Special collection – “Impact of polar observations on predictive skill” by Jung, Thomas, Massonnet, François, Sandu, Irina

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Drivers of summer Arctic sea-ice extent at interannual time scale in CMIP6 large ensembles revealed by information flow by Docquier, David, Massonnet, François, Ragone, Francesco, Sticker, Annelies, Fichefet, Thierry, Vannitsem, Stéphane

“…Arctic sea-ice extent has strongly decreased since the beginning of satellite observations in the late 1970s. While several drivers are known to be implicated,…”
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Arctic Sea Ice in CMIP6 by Community, SIMIP

“…We examine CMIP6 simulations of Arctic sea‐ice area and volume. We find that CMIP6 models produce a wide spread of mean Arctic sea‐ice area, capturing the…”
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Extremes of summer Arctic sea ice reduction investigated with a rare event algorithm by Sauer, Jerome, Demaeyer, Jonathan, Zappa, Giuseppe, Massonnet, François, Ragone, Francesco

“…Various studies identified possible drivers of extremes of Arctic sea ice reduction, such as observed in the summers of 2007 and 2012, including…”
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Using climate models to estimate the quality of global observational data sets by Massonnet, François, Bellprat, Omar, Guemas, Virginie, Doblas-Reyes, Francisco J.

“…Observational estimates of the climate system are essential to monitoring and understanding ongoing climate change and to assessing the quality of climate…”
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Summer Extreme Cyclone Impacts on Arctic Sea Ice by Lukovich, Jennifer V., Stroeve, Julienne C., Crawford, Alex, Hamilton, Lawrence, Tsamados, Michel, Heorton, Harry, Massonnet, François

“…In this study the impact of extreme cyclones on Arctic sea ice in summer is investigated. Examined in particular are relative thermodynamic and dynamic…”
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Prospects for improved seasonal Arctic sea ice predictions from multivariate data assimilation by Massonnet, François, Fichefet, Thierry, Goosse, Hugues

“…•We use gridded sea ice concentration retrievals from satellite observations to initialize Arctic sea ice predictions.•Initialized seasonal hindcasts show…”
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Southern Ocean sea ice concentration budgets of five ocean-sea ice reanalyses by Nie, Yafei, Uotila, Petteri, Cheng, Bin, Massonnet, François, Kimura, Noriaki, Cipollone, Andrea, Lv, Xianqing

“…In this study, sea ice concentration (SIC) budgets were calculated for five ocean-sea ice reanalyses (CFSR, C-GLORSv7, GLORYS12v1, NEMO-EnKF and ORAS5), in the…”
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Climate Models as Guidance for the Design of Observing Systems: the Case of Polar Climate and Sea Ice Prediction by Massonnet, François

“…Purpose of review The Arctic and Antarctic are among the regions most exposed to climate change, but ironically, they are also the ones for which the least…”
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Impact of model resolution on Arctic sea ice and North Atlantic Ocean heat transport by Docquier, David, Grist, Jeremy P., Roberts, Malcolm J., Roberts, Christopher D., Semmler, Tido, Ponsoni, Leandro, Massonnet, François, Sidorenko, Dmitry, Sein, Dmitry V., Iovino, Doroteaciro, Bellucci, Alessio, Fichefet, Thierry

“…Arctic sea-ice area and volume have substantially decreased since the beginning of the satellite era. Concurrently, the poleward heat transport from the North…”
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Dominant role of early winter Barents–Kara sea ice extent anomalies in subsequent atmospheric circulation changes in CMIP6 models by Delhaye, Steve, Massonnet, François, Fichefet, Thierry, Msadek, Rym, Terray, Laurent, Screen, James

“…The mid-latitude climate responses to Arctic sea ice loss remain unclear, partly because the atmospheric responses depend sensitively to the location of sea…”
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Forecast Skill of the Arctic Sea Ice Outlook 2008–2022 by Blanchard‐Wrigglesworth, Edward, Bushuk, Mitchell, Massonnet, François, Hamilton, Lawrence C., Bitz, Cecilia M., Meier, Walter N., Bhatt, Uma S.

“…We assess the skill of forecasts of Arctic September sea ice in the Sea Ice Outlook over 2008–2022. The multi‐model median June initialized forecast of…”
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Effects of sea ice form drag on the polar oceans in the NEMO-LIM3 global ocean–sea ice model by Sterlin, Jean, Tsamados, Michel, Fichefet, Thierry, Massonnet, François, Barbic, Gaia

“…The surface roughness of sea ice is highly variable because of the diversity of discrete obstacles to the flow present on the sea ice surface. These obstacles…”
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