349
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Article

Estimation of Sea Ice Thickness from SARAL/AltiKa in Drifting Orbit Phase

, , , , , , & show all
Pages 302-323 | Received 01 Oct 2019, Accepted 16 Feb 2020, Published online: 11 Apr 2020

References

  • Alexandrov, V., S. Sandven, J. Wahlin, and O. M. Johannessen. 2010. The relation between sea ice thickness and freeboard in the Arctic. The Cryosphere 4 (3):373–80.
  • Armitage, T. W. K., and A. L. Ridout. 2015. Arctic sea ice freeboard from AltiKa and comparison with CryoSat-2 and Operation IceBridge. Geophysical Research Letters 42 (16):6724–31.
  • Bamber, J. L. 1994. Ice sheet altimeter processing scheme. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 15 (4):925–38.
  • Bronner, E., A. Guillot, N. Picot, and J. Noubel. 2013. SARAL/AltiKa Products Handbook. Toulouse, France: Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, SALP-MU-M-OP-15984-CN. Available at http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com/fileadmin/documents/data/tools/SARAL Altika products handbook.pdf. Last accessed 6 July 2018.
  • Colbeck, S. C. 1982. An overview of seasonal snow metamorphism. Reviews of Geophysics 20 (1):45–61.
  • Comiso, J. C., D. J. Cavalieri, and T. Markus. 2003. Sea ice concentration, ice temperature, and snow depth using AMSR-E data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 41 (2):243–252.
  • Curry, J. A., J. I. Schramm, and E. E. Ebert. 1995. Sea ice-albedo climate feedback mechanism. Journal of Climate 8:240–7.
  • Drinkwater, M. R. 1991. Ku band airborne radar altimeter observations of marginal sea ice during the 1984 marginal ice zone experiment. Journal of Geophysical Research 96 (c3):4555–72.
  • Elisabeth, S., F. A. Haumann, and M. N. Raphael. 2018. Atmospheric influences on the anomalous 2016 Antarctic sea ice decay. The Cryosphere 12:1103–19.
  • Fletcher, J. O. 1969. Ice extent in the southern oceans and its relation to world climate. Journal of Glaciology 15:417–27.
  • Hobbs, W. R., R. Massom, S. Stammerjohn, P. Reid, G. Williams, and W. Meier. 2016. A review of recent changes in Southern Ocean sea ice, their drivers and forcings. Global and Planetary Change 143:228–50.
  • IPCC, A. 2013. Intergovernmental panel on climate change climate change fifth assessment report (AR5).
  • Kaleschke, L., X. Tian‐Kunze, N. Maaß, M. Mäkynen, and M. Drusch. 2012. Sea ice thickness retrieval from SMOS brightness temperatures during the Arctic freeze‐up period. Geophysical Research Letters 39 (5).
  • Kurtz, N. T., and T. Markus. 2012. Satellite observations of Antarctic sea ice thickness and volume. Journal of Geophysical Research 117:C08025.
  • Kwok, R. 2014. Simulated effects of a snow layer on retrieval of CryoSat-2 sea ice freeboard. Geophysical Research Letters 41 (14):5014–20. doi:10.1002/2014GL060993.
  • Kwok, R. 2010. Satellite remote sensing of sea-ice thickness and kinematics: A review. Journal of Glaciology 56 (200):1129–40.
  • Kwok, R., and G. F. Cunningham. 2008. ICESat over Arctic sea ice: Estimation of snow depth and ice thickness. Journal of Geophysical Research 113 (C8):C08010.
  • Kwok, R., G. F. Cunningham, M. Wensnahan, I. Rigor, H. J. Zwally, and D. Yi. 2009. Thinning and volume loss of the Arctic Ocean sea ice cover: 2003–2008. Journal of Geophysical Research 114 (C7):C07005.
  • Laxon, S. W., K. A. Giles, A. L. Ridout, D. J. Wingham, R. Willatt, R. Cullen, R. Kwok, A. Schweiger, J. Zhang, C. Haas, et al. 2013. CryoSat-2 estimates of Arctic sea ice thickness and volume. Geophysical Research Letters 40 (4):732–7.
  • Laxon, S. 1994. Sea-ice altimeter processing scheme at the EODC. International Journal of Remote Sensing 15 (4):915–24.
  • Laxon, S., N. Peacock, and D. Smith. 2003. High interannual variability of sea ice thickness in the Arctic region. Nature 425 (6961):947–9.
  • Liu, J. P., J. A. Curry, and D. G. Martinson. 2004. Interpretation of recent Antarctic sea ice variability. Geophysical Research Letters 31 (2):L02205.
  • Maheshwari, M., P. Jayaprasad, D. R. Rajak, S. R. Oza, and R. Sharma. 2015a. Arctic Sea ice thickness from AltiKa. SARAL Satellite and its Applications. NNRMS Bulletin 39:102–7. https://www.isro.gov.in/sites/default/files/articlefiles/media/newsletters/NNRMSBulletinApril2015Lowres.pdf.
  • Maheshwari, M., C. Mahesh, K. S. Rajkumar, J. Pallipad, D. R. Rajak, S. R. Oza, R. Kumar, and R. Sharma. 2015b. Estimation of sea ice freeboard from SARAL-AltiKa data. Marine Geodesy 38 (sup1):487–96.
  • Maksym, T., S. E. Stammerjohn, S. Ackley, and R. Massom. 2012. Antarctic sea ice – A polar opposite? Oceanography 25 (3):140–51.
  • Markus, T., and D. J. Cavalieri. 2012. AMSR-E algorithm theoretical basis document: Sea Ice Products. http://nsidc.org.
  • Martin, S., R. Drucker, R. Kwok, and B. Holt. 2004. Estimation of the thin ice thickness and heat flux for the Chukchi Sea Alaskan coast polynya from Special Sensor Microwave/Imager data, 1990–2001. Journal of Geophysical Research 109 (C10):C10012.
  • Martin, T. V., H. J. Zwally, A. C. Brenner, and R. A. Bindschadler. 1983. Analysis and retracking of continental ice sheet radar altimeter waveforms. Journal of Geophysical Research 88 (C3):1608–16.
  • Rajak, D. R., R. K. K. Singh, P. Jayaprasad, S. R. Oza, and J. Beg. 2016. Harnessing Space observations to provide sea ice advisories to Antarctic expedition ships. In A Compendium of Research at SAC (Jan. 2013 to Dec. 2014), Vol. 2, pp. 455–4457.
  • Ricker, R., S. Hendricks, V. Helm, H. Skourup, and M. Davidson. 2014. Sensitivity of CryoSat-2 Arctic sea-ice freeboard and thickness on radar-waveform interpretation. The Cryosphere 8 (4):1607–22.
  • Steunou, N., J. D. Desjonquères, N. Picot, P. Sengenes, J. Noubel, and J. C. Poisson. 2015. AltiKa Altimeter: Instrument description and in flight performance. Marine Geodesy 38 (sup1):22–42.
  • Sugimoto, F., T. Tamura, H. Shimoda, S. Uto, D. Simizu, K. Tateyama, S. Hoshino, T. Ozeki, Y. Fukamachi, S. Ushio, et al. 2016. Interannual variability in sea-ice thickness in the pack-ice zone off Lützow-Holm Bay, East Antarctica. Polar Science 10 (1):43–51.
  • Walsh, J. E. 1983. The role of sea ice in climate variability: Theories and evidence. Atmosphere-Ocean 21 (3):229–42.
  • Weissling, B. P., and S. F. Ackley. 2011. Antarctic sea-ice altimetry: Scale and resolution effects on derived ice thickness distribution. Annals of Glaciology 52 (57):225–32.
  • Willatt, R., S. Laxon, K. Giles, R. Cullen, C. Haas, and V. Helm. 2011. Ku-band radar penetration into snow cover Arctic sea ice using air borne data. Annals of Glaciology 52 (57):197–205.
  • Wingham, D., A. Shepherd, A. Muir, and G. Marshall. 2006. Mass balance of Antarctic ice sheet. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 364 (1844):1627–35.
  • Xie, H., S. F. Ackley, D. Yi, H. J. Zwally, P. Wagner, B. Weissling, M. Lewis, and K. Ye. 2011. Sea-ice thickness distribution of the Bellingshausen Sea from surface measurements and ICESat altimetry. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 58 (9-10):1039–51.
  • Xie, H., A. E. Tekeli, S. F. Ackley, D. Yi, and H. J. Zwally. 2013. Sea ice thickness estimations from ICESat Altimetry over the Bellingshausen and Amundsen Seas, 2003–2009. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 118:2438–53.
  • Yu, Y., G. A. Maykut, and D. A. Rothrock. 2004. Changes in the thickness distribution of Arctic sea ice between 1958–1970 and 1993–1997. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 109 (C8):C08004.
  • Zakharova, E. A., S. Fleury, K. Guerreiro, S. Willmes, F. Rémy, A. V. Kouraev, and G. Heinemann. 2015. Sea Ice Leads Detection Using SARAL/AltiKa Altimeter. Marine Geodesy 38 (sup1):522–33. doi:10.1080/01490419.2015.1019655.
  • Zwally, H. J. 1996. GSFC retracking algorithms. http://icesat4.gsfc.nasa.gov.
  • Zwally, H. J., D. Yi, R. Kwok, and Y. Zhao. 2008. ICESat measurements of sea ice freeboard and estimates of sea ice thickness in the Weddell Sea. Journal of Geophysics Research 113 (C2):C02S15.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.