An updated assessment of the changing Arctic sea ice cover

WN Meier, J Stroeve - Oceanography, 2022‏ - JSTOR
Sea ice is an essential component of the Arctic climate system. The Arctic sea ice cover has
undergone substantial changes in the past 40+ years, including decline in areal extent in all …

[HTML][HTML] Deep learning techniques for enhanced sea-ice types classification in the Beaufort Sea via SAR imagery

Y Huang, Y Ren, X Li - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2024‏ - Elsevier
This study proposes a dual-branch encoder U-Net (DBU-Net) deep learning model to
classify sea ice types based on synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images in the Beaufort Sea …

Sea ice remote sensing—Recent developments in methods and climate data sets

S Sandven, G Spreen, G Heygster… - Surveys in …, 2023‏ - Springer
Sea ice monitoring by polar orbiting satellites has been developed over more than four
decades and is today one of the most well-established applications of space observations …

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 …

Retrieval and parametrisation of sea-ice bulk density from airborne multi-sensor measurements

A Jutila, S Hendricks, R Ricker… - The Cryosphere …, 2021‏ - tc.copernicus.org
Knowledge of sea-ice thickness and volume depends on freeboard observations from
satellite altimeters and in turn on information of snow mass and sea-ice density required for …

Map** potential timing of ice algal blooms from satellite

JC Stroeve, G Veyssiere, C Nab, B Light… - Geophysical …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
As Arctic sea ice and its overlying snow cover thin, more light penetrates into the ice and
upper ocean, shifting the phenology of algal growth within the bottom of sea ice, with …

[HTML][HTML] Winter Arctic sea ice thickness from ICESat-2: Upgrades to freeboard and snow loading estimates and an assessment of the first three winters of data …

AA Petty, N Keeney, A Cabaj, P Kushner… - The …, 2023‏ - tc.copernicus.org
NASA's ICESat-2 mission has provided near-continuous, high-resolution estimates of sea
ice freeboard across both hemispheres since data collection started in October 2018. This …

A deep learning approach to retrieve cold-season snow depth over Arctic sea ice from AMSR2 measurements

H Li, CQ Ke, Q Zhu, M Li, X Shen - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Snowpack on sea ice can adjust changes in sea ice conditions and plays a vital role in the
Earth's climate system. Snow depth, an important parameter of snowpack, is a necessary …

[HTML][HTML] A new structure for the sea ice essential climate variables of the global climate observing system

T Lavergne, S Kern, S Aaboe, L Derby… - Bulletin of the …, 2022‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Climate observations inform about the past and present state of the climate system. They
underpin climate science, feed into policies for adaptation and mitigation, and increase …

Arctic freeboard and snow depth from near‐coincident CryoSat‐2 and ICESat‐2 (CRYO2ICE) observations: A first examination of winter sea ice during 2020–2022

RM Fredensborg Hansen, H Skourup… - Earth and Space …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
In the summer of 2020, ESA changed the orbit of CryoSat‐2 to align periodically with NASA's
ICESat‐2 mission, a campaign known as CRYO2ICE, which allows for near‐coincident …