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New Methods and Technologies of Ice Forecasts for the Arctic Seas

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Methodological approaches in the area of long- and short-range ice forecasts are discussed. Three basic modern directions of long-term ice forecast development are shown. New methods of long-range ice forecasts developed in the recent decade are presented. The ways of improving the AARI short-range ice forecast method based on the coupled ice-ocean dynamic-thermodynamic model are considered. It is shown that the numerical modeling as a specific branch of ice forecasting requires permanent development. The automation of ice forecasts can be implemented as an automated workplace or as a hardware-software complex.

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Russian Text © E.U. Mironov, S.V. Klyachkin, A.V. Yulin, 2019, published in Meteorologiya i Gidrologiya, 2019, No. 4, pp. 26–35.

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Mironov, E.U., Klyachkin, S.V. & Yulin, A.V. New Methods and Technologies of Ice Forecasts for the Arctic Seas. Russ. Meteorol. Hydrol. 44, 231–237 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068373919040022

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