Correction to “A model assessment of satellite observed trends in polar sea ice extents”

Abstract

In the paper “A model assessment of satellite observed trends in polar sea ice extents” by K. Y. Vinnikov et al. (Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L05704, doi:10.1029/2005GL025282, 2006) the ice extents retrieved from French IPSL CM4 climate model simulations have been underestimated. They correspond to ice thicknesses of ≥60 cm instead of ≥6 cm. Table 1 and Figure 2 below show the corrected estimates of the statistical parameters for the sea ice simulations of this model. The revised Table 1 and Figure 2 should be used instead of those published in the original paper. The authors apologize to the readers for this error and thank Olivier Arzel, Thierry Fichefet, and Jean-Louis Dufresne for pointing it out to us.