Characterizing Arctic sea ice topography and atmospheric form drag using high-resolution IceBridge data

Generation of an integrated set of remotely-sensed products for sea-ice monitoring and modeling is tested using AVHHR data of the Arctic Beaufort Sea region for June 1992 through July 1993. The resulting product set includes a suite of parameters applicable to energy balance calculations and monitoring of detailed sea ice processes. Using calibrated and navigated AVHRR 1.1 km imagery, cloud fraction, ice surface temperature, surface albedo, downwelling radiative fluxes, ice motion vectors, and cloud properties such as optical depth, phase and droplet effective radius are estimated. The authors describe the processing strategy and use these products to summarize conditions during the study period.

Albedo (alchemy)

Sea ice concentration

Cloud fraction

Beaufort sea

Downwelling

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Synergy of radar altimetry and L-Band passive microwave data to improve Arctic sea ice thickness information

AGUFM (2015)

Stefan Hendricks Robert Ricker Lars Kaleschke

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Remote-sensing techniques

Cambridge University Press eBooks (2004)

J. L. Bamber R. Kwok

The cryosphere covers a vast expanse of the polar oceans and land surfaces. The area of the Southern Ocean covered by sea ice fluctuates between about 3.4 and 19.1 × 106 km2. over the period of one year. The Antarctic ice sheet covers an area of some 13 × 106 km2., greater than the conterminous USA. The number of glaciers on the planet is not well known, but certainly exceeds 160 000. Monitoring such large areas, often in remote and hostile environments, is ideally suited to satellite-based observations, which provide the only practical means of obtaining synoptic, timely coverage. Due to the importance of satellite remote sensing to observations of the cryosphere, we provide here a brief introduction to the subject, covering the satellites and sensors most commonly employed and describing how they can be used to derive information on mass balance. These instruments and techniques are referred to extensively in the subsequent chapters covering observational data on mass balance. This section is a primer in the subject. For comprehensive coverage of the general principles of remote sensing of the environment, the reader is referred to a number of excellent textbooks on remote sensing, referenced in this chapter. In section 4.2 we provide an overview of the general principles of satellite remote sensing, which are common to both land- and sea-ice measurements. In section 4.3 the characteristics and pertinent operating principles of the satellites and sensors relevant to cryospheric studies are reviewed.

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Analysis of Arctic Sea ice coverage in 2012 using multi-source scatterometer data

AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (2013)

M. Zhai

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Comparing Arctic Sea Ice Kinematics from Satellite Remote Sensing Data to Coupled Sea Ice-Ocean Model Results

AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (2009)