Sea ice cover
Abstract —In this paper, we focus on developing a novel method to extract sea ice cover (i.e., discrimination/classification of sea ice and open water) using Sentinel-1 (S1) cross-polarization (vertical-horizontal,
... the sea ice are very close to those of the windy sea surface, particularly in the lower right ...extracted sea ice cover, as shown in Fig. 16(e). Obviously, the sea ...
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The Arctic sea ice cover of 2016: a year of record-low highs and higher-than-expected lows
... Arctic sea ice cover of 2016 was highly note- worthy, as it featured record low monthly sea ice extents at the start of the year but a summer (September) extent that was higher than ...
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Winter sea ice export from the Laptev Sea preconditions the local summer sea ice cover and fast ice decay
... Abstract. Ice retreat in the eastern Eurasian Arctic is a con- sequence of atmospheric and oceanic processes and regional feedback mechanisms acting on the ice cover, both in win- ter and ...of ...
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Warm Greenland during the last interglacial: the role of regional changes in sea ice cover
... in sea ice are a primary cause of the diverse temperature response without testing the role of sea ice in ...use sea ice and sea surface temperatures (SSTs) from two ...
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Sensitivity of Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass balance to perturbations in sea surface temperature and sea ice cover: a study with the regional climate model MAR
... Greenland Ice Sheet ...in sea ice cover (SIC) and sea surface temperature (SST) were ob- served in the North Atlantic, suggesting a possible connec- ...the ice sheet SMB response ...
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Variability in sea ice cover and climate elicit sex specific responses in an Antarctic predator
... earlier sea ice advance and increased sea ice concentrations outside polynyas and the biotic processes described ...wind-driven sea ice production and polynya size changes may ...
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Diel vertical migration of Arctic zooplankton during the polar night
... High-latitude environments show extreme seaso- nal variation in physical and biological variables. The classic paradigm of Arctic marine ecosystems holds that most biological processes slow down or cease during the polar ...
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IcePAC – a probabilistic tool to study sea ice spatio-temporal dynamics: application to the Hudson Bay area
... of sea ice cover re- garding climate, marine and coastal environment manage- ment, fauna protection, and the cultural traditions of north- ern communities, access to informative and reliable ...
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Sea-ice dynamics strongly promote Snowball Earth initiation and destabilize tropical sea-ice margins
... bare sea ice turns into snow-covered sea ice (and vice-versa) and hence affects the contrast be- tween the bare and snow-covered sea-ice albedo that leads to the Jormungand ...
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Arctic climate: changes in sea ice extent outweigh changes in snow cover
... snow cover and hence decreasing albedo, especially in spring (Robinson and Frei, 2000; Déry and Brown, ...shrinking sea ice cover (Pistone et ...
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Biogeochemical impact of snow cover and cyclonic intrusions on the winter Weddell Sea ice pack
... the ice-water interface ( Lewis et ...the sea ice cover at a given location, together with the globally high brine volumes generated by the warm ice temperatures (Figure 4d) support- ...
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Sea-ice extent and its trend provide limited metrics of model performance
... modelled sea- ice coverage against reality is affected by uncertainties in the retrieval of sea-ice coverage from satellite, by the usage of sea-ice extent to overcome these ...
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On the assimilation of ice velocity and concentration data into large-scale sea ice models
... Arctic sea ice cover in order to determine to what extent the assimilation of ice velocity and/or concen- tration data improves the model behavior and, in particular, the simulation of ...
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Sensitivity of the North Atlantic climate to Greenland Ice Sheet melting during the Last Interglacial
... Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) melted due to a warmer than present-day ...maximum sea-ice cover and the strength of the overturning circulation, three regimes have been identified, which are ...
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Evolution of the seasonal temperature cycle in a transient Holocene simulation: orbital forcing and sea-ice
... of sea- ice is due to an increase in summer sea-ice cover and the continental boundaries of the Arctic Ocean basin that limit winter sea-ice extent when the whole basin is ...
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10 Be in late deglacial climate simulated by ECHAM5-HAM – Part 1: Climatological influences on 10 Be deposition
... polar ice sheets to climate changes, we perform time slice simulations within the deglacial climate at three different stages: 12 000 BP (years before 1950 CE), 11 000 BP and 10 000 ...the sea surface ...
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Increased Arctic sea ice volume after anomalously low melting in 2013
... wind-driven ice drift, and ice melting, to identify the origin of the observed inter-annual ...hemisphere sea ice 65% and 42% in autumn and spring, respectively and comprise the main region of ...
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Past and future interannual variability in Arctic sea ice in coupled climate models
... in sea ice cover- age have been studied only in a limited capacity, likely be- cause they are only beginning to become visible in Septem- ber in the present ...imum ice area variability during ...
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Anomalies of critical state in fracturing geophysical objects
... The scaling properties of the fracture products, such as crack networks, crack surfaces and collections of broken pieces, are well established and described in relevant reviews (Bouchaud, 1997; Stanley, 1999; Weiss, ...
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The impact of snow depth, snow density and ice density on sea ice thickness retrieval from satellite radar altimetry: results from the ESA-CCI Sea Ice ECV Project Round Robin Exercise
... in sea ice draft and thickness than ob- served by ...the sea ice along their track; sampling by RA is coarser and in addition depends on floe size, lead concentration, waveform distor- tion ...
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