A spring barrier for regional predictions of summer Arctic sea ice
David B Bonan1, Mitchell Bushuk2, Michael Winton2, Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth3 and Andrew F Thompson4, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)California Institute of Technology, Physical Oceanography, Pasadena, CA, United States