Sea Ice Thickness
Near-real-time Arctic sea ice thickness and volume from CryoSat-2
... of sea ice thickness. The NRT and archive thickness differ- ences, although small, vary ...Arctic sea ice north of 60 ◦ N every 2, 14 and 28 days ...NRT ...
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Arctic Mission Benefit Analysis: impact of sea ice thickness, freeboard, and snow depth products on sea ice forecast performance
... of sea ice thickness (SIT) into sea ice–ocean models has been shown to improve the quality of sea ice ...of sea ice volume (SIV) and snow volume (SNV) for ...
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Impact of assimilating sea ice concentration, sea ice thickness and snow depth in a coupled ocean–sea ice modelling system
... years, sea-ice concentration was the only parameter used for assim- ilation into numerical sea-ice ...models. Sea-ice concentration can easily be observed by satellites, and ...
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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
... average ice thickness rather than the actual range of ice thickness values (see ...different ice types and ice surface properties im- pact the radar backscatter and the waveform ...
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Improved Retrieval of Sea Ice Thickness and Density from Laser Altimeter
... Satellite laser altimeter (LA) (Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat)), Radar Altimetry (RA) (e.g. ERS1, 2, Envisat and CryoSat-2), airborne (Operational IceBridge (OIB)) and Upward Looking Sonar (ULS) ...
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The relation between sea ice thickness and freeboard in the Arctic
... of sea ice thickness through converting ice freeboard measurements to thickness by assuming hydro- static equilibrium (Laxon, 1994; Laxon et ...measuring ice freeboard is based ...
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Interannual sea ice thickness variability in the Bay of Bothnia
... of sea ice thickness in the Bay of Both- nia in more ...fast ice zone and ice chart thickness ...ice thickness. The data have been used in devel- oping satellite ...
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Benefits of assimilating thin sea ice thickness from SMOS into the TOPAZ system
... thin sea ice thickness (SMOS-Ice) is derived from the brightness temperature data of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) ...cold sea- ...and ...
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Medium-range predictability of early summer sea ice thickness distribution in the East Siberian Sea based on the TOPAZ4 ice–ocean data assimilation system
... summertime sea ice has focused attention on the potential use of the Northern Sea Route (NSR), for which sea ice thickness (SIT) information is crucial for safe maritime ...
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Estimating early-winter Antarctic sea ice thickness from deformed ice morphology
... in sea ice areal extent for decades, but there are significant challenges in obtaining analogous measurements for sea ice thickness data in the Antarctic, primarily due to difficulties ...
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A sea-ice thickness retrieval model for 1.4 GHz radiometry and application to airborne measurements over low salinity sea-ice
... increasing ice thick- ness. This allows calculating the sea-ice thickness from the measured brightness temperature by a simple inversion of the function for prescribed free ...the ice ...
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Combined SMAP–SMOS thin sea ice thickness retrieval
... the thickness of thin sea ice can be ...thin sea ice thickness retrieval is more consistent as the incidence angle effects do not have to be taken into ...the thickness of ...
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A weekly Arctic sea-ice thickness data record from merged CryoSat-2 and SMOS satellite data
... SMOS ice thickness data: a weighted mean and an optimal interpolation scheme based on weekly CS2 and SMOS ice thickness ...Arctic-wide sea-ice thickness estimates with ...
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Utilizing CryoSat-2 sea ice thickness to initialize a coupled ice-ocean modeling system
... CryoSat-2 sea ice thickness products derived with independent algorithms are used to initialize a coupled ice-ocean modeling system in which a series of reanalysis studies are performed for ...
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Recent summer sea ice thickness surveys in Fram Strait and associated ice volume fluxes
... occurring ice thickness, the mode of the distribution, represents level ice thickness and is the result of winter accretion and summer ...the ice thickness PDF. The fraction of ...
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New insight from CryoSat-2 sea ice thickness for sea ice modelling
... first-year ice (see Laxon et ...individual thickness point mea- surements provided by the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM) into five CICE thickness cate- gories, (1) ice ...
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Assessment of contemporary satellite sea ice thickness products for Arctic sea ice
... of sea ice over the past two decades have resulted in a wide variety of satellite- derived sea ice thickness data products becoming publicly ...satellite-derived thickness ...
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Uncertainties in Arctic sea ice thickness and volume: new estimates and implications for trends
... Sea ice thickness can also be estimated with sea ice mod- els, which are an important tool for understanding and pre- dicting the state of Arctic sea ...Pan-Arctic ...
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Impact of assimilating a merged sea-ice thickness from CryoSat-2 and SMOS in the Arctic reanalysis
... the sea-ice edge, where the contributions from CryoSat-2 and SMOS SIT were ...present sea-ice ...of sea ice (Rampal et ...of ice concentration in winter months and ...
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A combined remote sensing/modelling approach for the retrieval of sea ice thickness in East Antarctica
... four different conditions for and Ce Median and mean ice thicknesses for histograms generated with three different sets of values for gi and g2 Typical cloud, open water, snow-free ice a[r] ...
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