Articles | Volume 9, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-1721-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-1721-2015
Research article
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27 Aug 2015
Research article |  | 27 Aug 2015

Exploring the utility of quantitative network design in evaluating Arctic sea ice thickness sampling strategies

T. Kaminski, F. Kauker, H. Eicken, and M. Karcher

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (16 Jul 2015) by Christian Haas
AR by Thomas Kaminski on behalf of the Authors (24 Jul 2015)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Publish as is (09 Aug 2015) by Christian Haas
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Short summary
We present a quantitative network design study of the Arctic sea ice-ocean system. For a demonstration, we evaluate two idealised hypothetical flight transects derived from NASA’s Operation IceBridge airborne ice surveys in terms of their potential to improve 10-day to 5-month sea ice forecasts. Our analysis quantifies the benefits of sampling upstream of the target area and of reducing the sampling uncertainty. It further quantifies the complementarity of combining two flight transects.