Description of algorithm Interpretation of results

Validation of ice thickness - Full domain

Bulletin date: 2018-10-18

Model: ARC MFC - TOPAZ

Data source: UCL CryoSAT-2 sea ice thickness

Validation statistics summary

	Bias (m)	RMS (m)	total grids	low SIT	OK SIT	high SIT
Best estimate	-0.97	1.06	18120	12094	5947	79
Day 1 forecast	-0.96	1.06	18120	11995	6045	80
Day 4 forecast	-0.97	1.06	18120	11991	6050	79
Day 7 forecast	-0.96	1.05	18120	11994	6047	79
Day 10 forecast	-0.97	1.06	18120	11941	6104	75

Numbers in the three rightmost columns are grid counts. Regions with high/low sea ice thickness correspond to areas with model offsets from the gridded observations outside of one standard deviation. (Standard deviations are provided in the observational product.)

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Definition of categories:

Category	Sea ice thickness
c1	<1m
c2	1 - 1.5m
c3	1.5 - 2m
c4	2 - 2.5m
c5	2.5 - 3m
c6	>3m

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Best estimate vs. observations

Contingency table

		observations
		open	c1	c2	c3	c4	c5	c6
m o d e l	open	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	c1	0	0.042	0.235	0.314	0.144	0.013	0.002
	c2	0	0	0.01	0.065	0.084	0.031	0.004
	c3	0	0.001	0.001	0.01	0.014	0.008	0.004
	c4	0	0	0.001	0.005	0.005	0.002	0.002
	c5	0	0	0	0.001	0.001	0	0.001
	c6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.001

See category definitions for details.

Statistical distribution

Observed sea ice thickness from CryoSAT

Sea ice thickness, best estimate product

Day 1 forecast vs. observations

Contingency table

		observations
		open	c1	c2	c3	c4	c5	c6
m o d e l	open	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	c1	0	0.042	0.235	0.31	0.143	0.013	0.002
	c2	0	0	0.01	0.068	0.084	0.031	0.004
	c3	0	0.001	0.002	0.011	0.015	0.007	0.003
	c4	0	0	0.001	0.005	0.005	0.002	0.002
	c5	0	0	0	0.001	0.001	0	0.001
	c6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.001

See category definitions for details.

Statistical distribution

Sea ice thickness, day 1 forecast

Day 7 forecast vs. observations

Contingency table

		observations
		open	c1	c2	c3	c4	c5	c6
m o d e l	open	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	c1	0	0.042	0.234	0.309	0.14	0.013	0.002
	c2	0	0	0.011	0.069	0.085	0.031	0.005
	c3	0	0.001	0.002	0.011	0.016	0.008	0.003
	c4	0	0	0.001	0.005	0.005	0.002	0.002
	c5	0	0	0	0.001	0.001	0	0.001
	c6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.001

See category definitions for details.

Statistical distribution

Sea ice thickness, day 7 forecast

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