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A comparative analysis of sea ice thickness models
Sofie Abildgaard, Christoffer Karoff, Till Soya Rasmussen, Kristine Skovgaard Madsen
Aarhus University, Denmark
(Abstract received 09/02/2015 for session X)
ABSTRACT
Sea ice thickness is important for climate change predictions and modelling. However, sea ice thickness modelling is still challenged by a lack of actual measurements and unknown sizes of uncertainties. The ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission, launched in 2009 and observing the Earth in the L-band (1.4 GHz), can be used to predict sea ice thicknesses less than 50 cm. In this study, two sea ice thickness retrieval methods are compared focusing on Baffin Bay where the ice melts every year. At a thickness around 15-25 cm the retrieval methods seem to agree well. An ongoing study will be using this result as a basis to compare three sea ice thickness models: DMI polar Ice, MyOcean Global and My Ocean Arctic.
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2015 LOM Workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark June 2nd - 4th, 2015