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As an additional contribution to the Year of Polar Prediction for the Southern Hemisphere (YOPP-SH), Météo-France has also provided a “test” version of the ARPEGE-SH configuration coupled with the 1D sea-ice model GELATO. A 4DVar assimilation was performed every 6h with the observation used by the ARPEGE operational version. 10 days and 5 days forecast have been provided at resp. at 00UTC and 12UTC and only 06h forecast at 6 and 18UTC. 21 YOPP super-site (17 over Antarctica and 4 for the Third Pole) are available. For several super sites, near the coast, the two nearest grid points have been extracted: one over sea and one over land. The time-series are available in the NetCdf format via the YOPP Data Portal and on the ftp site: ftp.umr-cnrm.fr see the contact name.