[PDF] Top 20 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 ...incorporating ... See full document

... and Arctic sea-ice extent differ from observations ...in sea- ice simulations and an assessment of the magnitude of inter- nal variability in the simulations, we will assess the ... See full document

... Sea ice leads develop as quasi-rectilinear cracks within the ice pack due to sea ice dynamics and warm water upwelling at particular ...thin ice (i.e., the marginal ice ... See full document

... extent, thickness, and ice age [1] [2] [3]. This rapid change in sea ice forms part of a series of Arctic climate transitions, which include shifts in the atmospheric circulation with ... See full document

... Sea ice export through the Fram Strait and its variability have been the focus of several previous ...that ice motion products and thickness estimates from satellites show lower ... See full document

... the sea ice and the ocean state are routinely produced by coupled sea ice–ocean models that are driven by prescribed atmospheric ...(EO) products of sea ice ... See full document

... estimate ice thickness from the IceSat LA data. They showed that the ice thickness has sig- nificantly decreased from 2007 to 2008, which is in agree- ment with analysis of RA data from ... See full document

... this ice type in all our ...thick ice has been developed (Maaß et ...on Arctic sea ice is to combine pre- cipitation from atmospheric reanalysis and ice drift data from ... See full document

... 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 ... See full document

... SMOS ice thickness data: a weighted mean and an optimal interpolation scheme based on weekly CS2 and SMOS ice thickness ...weekly Arctic-wide sea-ice thickness ... See full document

... average ice area the viscous-plastic model was shown to perform best at estimating the position of the ice edge [Lemke et ...compared. Ice drift from the four simulations was compared against lABP ... See full document

... We remind the reader that Newtonian relaxation is the sim- plest conceivable data assimilation scheme. It does not ac- count for spatial correlation in model and observations; nor does it account for multivariate ... See full document

... snow thickness from SMOS brightness temperatures, we set up different simulations that assumed different constant values for the model input pa- rameters surface temperature, ice salinity, ice ... See full document

... A 16S rDNA clone library of one sample from the Arctic sea ice environment was created to provide a comparison of community structures between the polar sea ice environments and to highl[r] ... See full document

... To the extent that there are in fact influences on pack physics, they probably exert themselves through multiphase processing not captured in the current version. High molecular weight material implies interfacial ... See full document

... whether Arctic sea ice has already passed a “tipping point”, or whether it will do so in the ...summer sea ice does not involve an irreversible bifurcation, because it is highly ... See full document

... Antarctic Ice Sheet and in particular its ice shelves is the second distinction to be made between the two polar ...that ice shelf basal melting is the dominant contributor to these freshwater fluxes ... See full document

... measurements. Sea ice extent and concen- tration are one of few parameters that have been studied, since reliable satellite observations began in ...sensors. Sea ice thickness is ... See full document

... sterol-based sea ice reconstructions with satellite-derived or, with re- spect to downcore paleo-studies, paleoclimatic data, how- ever, demonstrate that the climatic and/or environmental con- ... See full document

... ESA Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative, Sea Ice Concentration Climate Data Record from the AMSR-E and AMSR-2 Instruments at 25 km Grid Spac- ing, version ...of satellite observations ... See full document