Quantifying Seasonal Skill in Coupled Sea Ice Models using Freeboard Measurements from Spaceborne Laser Altimeters

Kristine Bench1, Andrew Roberts2, Wieslaw Maslowski1, Sinead Louise Farrell3 and Jacqueline Richter-Menge4, (1)Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States, (2)Lost Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, MD, United States, (4)US Army Corps of Engineers Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States