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Polar+ Snow on Sea ice

MULLARD SPACE SCIENCE LABORATORY-UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (GB)

Summary

The project aims to develop and validate different approaches to retrieve snow thickness over the sea ice; to develop a new prototype processor; and to produce and validate an experimental dataset of snow thickness over the Arctic.

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  • Arctic coastal sea ice thinning twice as fast than thought
    June 11, 2021

    Sea ice in key Arctic coastal regions is thinning at a rate of 70–100% faster than previously thought. These values, reported in a paper recently published in The Cryosphere, are derived when the sea ice thickness in the period 2002–2018 is calculated using new snow data with more realistic variability and trends. Results are outcomes …

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  • A new approach towards daily pan-Arctic sea ice freeboard estimates
    July 15, 2021

    Estimating sea ice thickness is essential to monitor the effects of long-term climatic change and understand their consequences for Arctic ecosystems. The continued sea ice loss – widely observed through EO data since 1979 – is bringing to an increased Arctic maritime activity for which timely forecasts of ice conditions are required too, to ensure …

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Domain
Science
Prime contractor
MULLARD SPACE SCIENCE LABORATORY-UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (GB)
Subcontractors
  • ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE (DE)
  • CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS) (FR)
  • FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE (FI)
  • UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, SCHOOL OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENT (GB)
  • UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ (NO)
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