The Sea Ice Rheology Experiment (SIREx) is a model intercomparison project of the Forum of Arctic Modeling and Observational Synthesis (FAMOS) focusing on sea-ice deformation in state-of-the-art sea-ice models. This collection contains all original data from the 38 participating simulations as well as derived datasets (e.g. trajectories and extracted LKF).

The Sea Ice Rheology Experiment (SIREx) is a model intercomparison project of the Forum of Arctic Modeling and Observational Synthesis (FAMOS). The project aims at evaluating state-of-the-art sea-ice models using existing and new metrics to understand how the simulated deformation fields are affected by different representations of sea-ice physics (rheology) and by model configuration. Part I of the SIREx analysis is concerned with evaluation of the statistical distribution and scaling properties of simulated sea-ice deformation fields against those from the RADARSAT Geophysical Processor System (RGPS). In SIREx Part II, skill metrics are designed to evaluate different recently suggested approaches for modeling linear kinematic features (LKFs). These LKFs are narrow bands of localized deformation that can be observed in satellite images but also form in high resolution sea ice simulations. Detection and tracking algorithms have been applied to both to extract LKF for further evaluation. 

This collection contains all original data from the 38 participating simulations as well as derived datasets (trajectories and extracted LKF). We invite submissions of any future work that originates from the original SIREx simulations data.