Environmental drivers of under-ice phytoplankton bloom dynamics in the Arctic Ocean

M Ardyna, CJ Mundy, MM Mills, L Oziel… - Elem Sci …, 2020 - online.ucpress.edu
The decline of sea-ice thickness, area, and volume due to the transition from multi-year to
first-year sea ice has improved the under-ice light environment for pelagic Arctic …

Seasonality and timing of sea ice mass balance and heat fluxes in the Arctic transpolar drift during 2019–2020

R Lei, B Cheng, M Hoppmann, F Zhang, G Zuo… - Elem Sci …, 2022 - online.ucpress.edu
Sea ice growth and decay are critical processes in the Arctic climate system, but
comprehensive observations are very sparse. We analyzed data from 23 sea ice mass …

Single-blind determination of methane detection limits and quantification accuracy using aircraft-based LiDAR

C Bell, J Rutherford, A Brandt, E Sherwin… - Elem Sci …, 2022 - online.ucpress.edu
Methane detection limits, emission rate quantification accuracy, and potential cross-species
interference are assessed for Bridger Photonics' Gas Map** LiDAR (GML) system utilizing …

Sea ice and snow characteristics from year-long transects at the MOSAiC Central Observatory

P Itkin, S Hendricks, M Webster, L von Albedyll… - Elem Sci …, 2023 - online.ucpress.edu
Repeated transects have become the backbone of spatially distributed ice and snow
thickness measurements crucial for understanding of ice mass balance. Here we detail the …

Photosynthetic production in the central Arctic Ocean during the record sea-ice minimum in 2012

M Fernández-Méndez, C Katlein, B Rabe… - …, 2015 - bg.copernicus.org
The ice-covered central Arctic Ocean is characterized by low primary productivity due to light
and nutrient limitations. The recent reduction in ice cover has the potential to substantially …

Seasonal evolution of light transmission distributions through Arctic sea ice

C Katlein, S Arndt, HJ Belter… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Light transmission through sea ice is a critical process for energy partitioning at the polar
atmosphere‐ice‐ocean boundary. Transmission of sunlight strongly impacts sea ice melting …

Advances in altimetric snow depth estimates using bi-frequency SARAL and CryoSat-2 Ka–Ku measurements

F Garnier, S Fleury, G Garric, J Bouffard… - The …, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
Although snow depth on sea ice is a key parameter for sea ice thickness (SIT) retrieval, there
currently does not exist reliable estimations. In the Arctic, nearly all SIT products use a snow …

Impact of snow accumulation on CryoSat‐2 range retrievals over Arctic sea ice: An observational approach with buoy data

R Ricker, S Hendricks, DK Perovich… - Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Radar altimetry measurements of the current satellite mission CryoSat‐2 show an increase
of Arctic sea ice thickness in autumn 2013, compared to previous years but also related to …

Machine learning approaches to retrieve pan-Arctic melt ponds from visible satellite imagery

S Lee, J Stroeve, M Tsamados, AL Khan - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Melt ponds on sea ice play an important role in the seasonal evolution of the summer ice
cover. In this study we present two machine learning algorithms, one (multi-layer neural …

Influence of ice thickness and surface properties on light transmission through A rctic sea ice

C Katlein, S Arndt, M Nicolaus… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The observed changes in physical properties of sea ice such as decreased thickness and
increased melt pond cover severely impact the energy budget of Arctic sea ice. Increased …