[PDF] Top 20 The relation between sea ice thickness and freeboard in the Arctic

... spatial and tem- poral measurements of sea ice thickness through converting ice freeboard measurements to thickness by assuming hydro- static equilibrium (Laxon, 1994; ... See full document

... In the above calculation, it was tacitly assumed that it is the insolation difference over a six-month-long “melt sea- son” that controls the change in the ... See full document

... have the largest impact among the continuous variables as the estimated mean slope has the largest amplitude among the normalized continuous variables ...1). Ice drift speed ... See full document

... show the apparent out-of-phase interannual relationship between the autumn Arctic sea ice extent and WHD for both R1 and R2 in ...−0.60 and −0.82 ... See full document

... snow and ice ...towards ice thickness monitoring was carried out in the GREENICE project in the Fram Strait in April 2003 and in the ... See full document

... of sea ice state variability and trends is made challenging because the available information on changes in sea ice thickness is inaccurate, in particular ... See full document

... Here, the retrieval exploited the SMOS measurement prin- ciple of observing brightness temperatures not only under one incidence angle but for a range of incidence ...With the current sea ... See full document

... pattern between ice concentration (ICEC) at the ice edge and sea surface salinity (SSS) elsewhere during the melting ...season. The correlation field in Fig. ... See full document

... lists the 29 ESMs and GCMs used for this study, selected on the requirement that they archive sea ice fields up to 2100 (a final sample of ∼ 35 models is expected when all simulations ... See full document

... Regarding the dynamics, LIM2 shows a better agreement with observations in terms of mean kinetic energy (Table ...mean ice drifts from 1983 to 2006 (not shown here) revealed that both models gen- ... See full document

... especially in the Arctic, where a marked decline in sea ice cover may have far-ranging consequences for endemic ...endemic Arctic seabirds, are key bioindicators as they ... See full document

... estimate in the Fram Strait compares well with observations(see ...5.7), the core of Atlantic Water is too weak and too diffuse (see ...from the artificial thickness diffusion ... See full document

... reduction in sea-ice area compared to an unfractured sea-ice ...of the ice cover to lateral melting with de- creasing floe size, finding that below 30 m, lateral melting ... See full document

... stations between 1954 and ...of the year. The mean winter (October–April) snow depth from W99 is shown in ...was the dominating ice type ... See full document

... Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) in 2003 with laser altimeter system was therefore a valuable addition to the previous sea-ice observing ...estimating ice ... See full document

... (SE) and all GNSS height measurements within 0.5 km of the drill- hole ...altered the reference frame of the GNSS height data from the WGS-84 ellipsoid to elevation above local ... See full document

... 23 and 25 April, producing snow layers a few cm thick at the ...eroded and several different layers are ...composition. The snow sur- face is very irregular, with sastrugi about 5 to 20 cm ... See full document

... for the sub-ice platelet layer found under land fast sea ice in McMurdo ...quantify the error associated with using satellite surface elevation measurements to estimate ... See full document

... test the link between the state of the sea ice cover and its cohesiveness, as expressed by the am- plitude of the inertial oscillations, we perform a ... See full document

... support the management of coastal areas, so it can be arranged on the setting, management, utilization, preservation and protection and security of marine areas and determination of ... See full document