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Figure 9.14.
Fields of mean September sea ice thickness based on observations from IceSat, the
average of all CMIP5 models over the period of IceSat observations and the difference between
the modeled and observed values (courtesy of A.P. Barrett, NSIDC, Boulder, CO). (See plate
section for color version.)
models is too thin north of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Greenland, and too
thick elsewhere.
Similarly, as shown by Slater and Lawrence (
2012
), there are large differ-
ences between different CMIP5 models in their depiction of both the present-day
