How Sea Ice Drift Influences Sea Ice Area and Volume

Improving Multiyear Sea Ice Concentration Estimates with Sea Ice Drift

Multiyear ice (MYI) concentration can be retrieved from passive or active microwave remote sensing observations. One of the algorithms that combines both observations is the Environmental Canada Ice Concentration Extractor (ECICE). However, factors such as ridging, snow wetness and metamorphism can cause significant changes in brightness temperature and backscatter, leading to misidentification...

Ice Growth on Sea Surface and Drift of Ice

Historical Antarctic mean sea ice area, sea ice trends, and winds in CMIP5 simulations

Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. [1] In contrast to Arctic sea ice, average Antarctic sea ice area is not retreating but has slowly increased since ...

Uncertainty in modeled Arctic sea ice volume

250 words) 25 Uncertainty in the Pan-arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) 26 Arctic sea ice volume record is characterized. A range of observations and approaches, 27 including in-situ ice thickness measurements, ICESat retrieved ice thickness, and model 28 sensitivity studies, yields a conservative estimate for October Arctic ice volume 29 uncertainty of +/1.35x10 km and ...

Rapid switch-like sea ice growth and land ice–sea ice hysteresis

[1] Rapid and extensive growth of sea ice cover was suggested to play a major role in the sea ice switch mechanism for the glacial cycles as well as on shorter millennial scales [Gildor and Tziperman, 2000]. This mechanism also predicts a hysteresis between sea ice and land ice, such that land ice grows when sea ice cover is small and withdraws when sea ice cover is more extensive. The switch-l...