Science Themes

Sea Ice Modelling

CPOM plays a leading role in national and international sea ice model development, collaborated extensively with core users at the Met Office, NOC and BAS, and makes our models and outputs available to the sea ice community, including the UK Sea Ice Group. CPOM currently improves the climate sea ice model SI3 by implementing new physics and supporting and guiding researchers across the wider Polar Research Community in its use.

Related Projects

• CANARI – Climate change in the Arctic-North Atlantic region and impact on the UK.

Recent Publications

• • Sea ice floe size: its impact on pan-Arctic and local ice mass and required model complexity Bateson et al. (28 Jun 2022)
  • Network connectivity between the winter Arctic Oscillation and summer sea ice in CMIP6 models and observations, Gregory et al. (05 May 2022)
  • Sub-kilometre scale distribution of snow depth on Arctic sea ice from Soviet drifting stations, Mallett et al. (04 April 2022)
  • Impact of Granular Behaviour of Fragmented Sea Ice on Marginal Ice Zone Dynamics, Rynders et al. (01 Jan 2022)
  • Assimilation of sea ice thickness derived from CryoSat-2 along-track freeboard measurements into the Met Office’s Forecast Ocean Assimilation Model (FOAM), Fiedler et al. (06 Jan 2022)