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•Article • Advances in Polar Science doi: 10.13679/j.advps.2015.2.00168 June 2015 Vol. 26 No. 2: 168-178 Model simulations of the annual cycle of the landfast ice thickness in the East Siberian Sea 1* 2 3 4 2,5 YANG Yu , Matti Leppäranta , LI Zhijun , Bin Cheng , ZHAI Mengxi Denis Demchev6 1 Department of Basic Sciences, Shenyang Institute of Engineering, Shenyang 110136, China; 2 Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Fi-00014 Helsinki, Finland; 3 State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China; 4 Finnish Meteorological Institute, Fi-00101 Helsinki, Finland; 5 Beijing Normal University, Beijing100875, China; 6 Nansen International Environmental Remote Sensing Centre (NIERSC), Saint-Petersburg 199034, Russia Received 14 November 2014 ; accepted 7 May 2015 Abstract The annual cycle of the thickness and temperature of landfast sea ice in the East Siberian Sea has been examined using a one-dimensional thermodynamic model. The model was calibrated for the year August 2012–July 2013, forced using the data of the Russian weather station Kotel’ny Island and ECMWF reanalyses. Thermal growth and decay of ice were reproduced well, and –2