New insight from CryoSat-2 sea ice thickness for sea ice modelling [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2019 Estimates of Arctic sea ice thickness have been available from the CryoSat-2 (CS2) radar altimetry mission during ice growth seasons since 2010. We derive the sub-grid-scale ice thickness distribution (ITD) with respect to five ice thickness categories ...
D. Schröder +4 more
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Regime shift in Arctic Ocean sea ice thickness. [PDF]
Nature, 2023 AbstractManifestations of climate change are often shown as gradual changes in physical or biogeochemical properties1. Components of the climate system, however, can show stepwise shifts from one regime to another, as a nonlinear response of the system to a changing forcing2.
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A weekly Arctic sea-ice thickness data record from merged CryoSat-2 and SMOS satellite data [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2017 Sea-ice thickness on a global scale is derived from different satellite sensors using independent retrieval methods. Due to the sensor and orbit characteristics, such satellite retrievals differ in spatial and temporal resolution as well as in the ...
R. Ricker +7 more
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Discrimination Algorithm and Procedure of Snow Depth and Sea Ice Thickness Determination Using Measurements of the Vertical Ice Temperature Profile by the Ice-Tethered Buoys [PDF]
Sensors, 2018 Snow depth and sea ice thickness in the Polar Regions are significant indicators of climate change and have been measured over several decades by ice-tethered buoys.
Guangyu Zuo, Yinke Dou, Ruibo Lei
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Near-real-time Arctic sea ice thickness and volume from CryoSat-2 [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2016 Timely observations of sea ice thickness help us to understand the Arctic climate, and have the potential to support seasonal forecasts and operational activities in the polar regions.
R. L. Tilling, A. Ridout, A. Shepherd
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Summertime sea-ice prediction in the Weddell Sea improved by sea-ice thickness initialization. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2021 AbstractSkillful sea-ice prediction in the Antarctic Ocean remains a big challenge due to paucity of sea-ice observations and insufficient representation of sea-ice processes in climate models. Using a coupled general circulation model, this study demonstrates skillful prediction of the summertime sea-ice concentration (SIC) in the Weddell Sea with ...
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Estimating Arctic Sea Ice Thickness with CryoSat-2 Altimetry Data Using the Least Squares Adjustment Method [PDF]
Sensors, 2020 Satellite altimeters can be used to derive long-term and large-scale sea ice thickness changes. Sea ice thickness retrieval is based on measurements of freeboard, and the conversion of freeboard to thickness requires knowledge of the snow depth and snow,
Feng Xiao +5 more
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Theory of the sea ice thickness distribution [PDF]
Physical Review Letters, 2015 We use concepts from statistical physics to transform the original evolution equation for the sea ice thickness distribution $g(h)$ due to Thorndike et al., (1975) into a Fokker-Planck like conservation law. The steady solution is $g(h) = {\cal N}(q) h^q
Toppaladoddi, Srikanth +1 more
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Dependence of sea ice yield-curve shape on ice thickness [PDF]
Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2004 In this note, the authors discuss the contribution that frictional sliding of ice floes (or floe aggregates) past each other and pressure ridging make to the plastic yield curve of sea ice.
Alexander V. Wilchinsky +17 more
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Assimilation of sea-ice concentration in a global climate model – physical and statistical aspects [PDF]
Ocean Science, 2013 We investigate the initialisation of Northern Hemisphere sea ice in the global climate model ECHAM5/MPI-OM by assimilating sea-ice concentration data. The analysis updates for concentration are given by Newtonian relaxation, and we discuss different ways
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