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NSIDC ice-cover fraction for ECCO v4 (LLC90) assimilation |
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Ice-cover fraction from http://nsidc.org/ |
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Comiso, J. C. 2000, updated 2015. |
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Bootstrap Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS, |
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Boulder, Colorado USA. |
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NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. |
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The monthly ice-cover fraction data has been mapped onto the the ECCO v4 |
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model grid, using gcmfaces (see Forget et al 2015), and organized by year. |
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Missing values are masked with -9999. |
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The names of these datasets are: |
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nsidc79_monthly_YYYY where YYYY=1992:2015 |
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References: |
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Forget, G., J.-M. Campin, P. Heimbach, C. N. Hill, R. M. Ponte, and C. Wunsch, 2015: |
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ECCO version 4: an integrated framework for non-linear inverse modeling and global ocean |
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state estimation. Geoscientific Model Development, 8, 3071-3104, doi:10.5194/gmd-8-3071-2015 |
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Contact us: |
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ecco-support@mit.edu |
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(please subscribe via http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ecco-support) |
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