Atmosphere – Sea Ice Coupling in the Navy’s Global Coupled Modeling System: Diagnosing Polar Prediction using the sea ice models, CICE4 and CICE5, coupled with the NAVGEM Atmospheric Model.

Neil P Barton, National Centers For Environmental Prediction-Environmental Modeling Center, Modeling and Data Assimilation Branch, College Park, United States, James Chen, Science Applications International Corporation Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States and Timothy Whitcomb, US Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States