Revisiting the potential of melt pond fraction as a predictor for the seasonal Arctic sea ice extent minimum

Jiping LIU, University at Albany State University of New York, Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Albany, NY, United States, Mirong Song, LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China, Radley M Horton, Columbia University, Columbia Climate School, New York, United States and Yongyun Hu, Peking University, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Beijing, China