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Acknowledgments.
Principal funding for this project was pro-
vided by the U.S. Geological Survey. We thank G. S. york and k.
S. Simac for logistical support on this project and for keeping the
office going while we were preoccupied. We thank G. M. Durner,
E. V. Regehr, M. Runge, and S. Morey for valuable discussions
and k. Oakley for effective and insightful project management.
We are grateful to W. L. Thompson, T. Starfield, N. Lunn, and B.
Taylor for helpful reviews of earlier versions of our model and this
paper. We acknowledge the modeling groups for making their sea
ice simulations and projections available for analysis, the Program
for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) for
collecting and archiving the CMIP3 model output, and the WCRP's
Working Group on Coupled Modeling (WGCM) for organizing
the model data analysis activity. The WCRP CMIP3 multimodel
data set is supported by the Office of Science, U.S. Department of
Energy. Any use of trade, product, or company names in this publi-
cation is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorse-
ment by the U.S. Government.
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