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DOI	10.5194/tc-10-585-2016
	Error assessment of satellite-derived lead fraction in the Arctic
	Ivanova N.; Rampal P.; Bouillon S.
发表日期	2016
ISSN	19940416
卷号	10 期号:2
英文摘要	Leads within consolidated sea ice control heat exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere during winter, thus constituting an important climate parameter. These narrow elongated features occur when sea ice is fracturing under the action of wind and currents, reducing the local mechanical strength of the ice cover, which in turn impact the sea ice drift pattern. This creates a high demand for a high-quality lead fraction (LF) data set for sea ice model evaluation, initialization, and for the assimilation of such data in regional models. In this context, an available LF data set retrieved from satellite passive microwave observations (Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System, AMSR-E) is of great value, which has been providing pan-Arctic light- and cloud-independent daily coverage since 2002. In this study errors in this data set are quantified using accurate LF estimates retrieved from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images employing a threshold technique. A consistent overestimation of LF by a factor of 2-4 is found in the AMSR-E LF product. It is shown that a simple adjustment of the upper tie point used in the method to estimate the LF can reduce the pixel-wise error by a factor of 2 on average. Applying such an adjustment to the full data set may thus significantly increase the quality and value of the original data set. © 2016 Author(s).
学科领域	air-sea interaction; AMSR-E; assessment method; data set; error analysis; fractionation; heat flux; ice drift; lead; microwave imagery; pixel; satellite imagery; synthetic aperture radar; Arctic
语种	英语
scopus关键词	air-sea interaction; AMSR-E; assessment method; data set; error analysis; fractionation; heat flux; ice drift; lead; microwave imagery; pixel; satellite imagery; synthetic aperture radar; Arctic
来源期刊	Cryosphere
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/119688
作者单位	Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ivanova N.,Rampal P.,Bouillon S.. Error assessment of satellite-derived lead fraction in the Arctic[J],2016,10(2).
APA	Ivanova N.,Rampal P.,&Bouillon S..(2016).Error assessment of satellite-derived lead fraction in the Arctic.Cryosphere,10(2).
MLA	Ivanova N.,et al."Error assessment of satellite-derived lead fraction in the Arctic".Cryosphere 10.2(2016).