Characterizing Arctic sea ice topography using high-resolution IceBridge data

Petty, Alek A.; Tsamados, Michel C.; Kurtz, Nathan T.; Farrell, Sinead L.; Newman, Thomas; Harbeck, Jeremy P.; Feltham, Daniel L.; Richter-Menge, Jackie A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1161-2016

Articles | Volume 10, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1161-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1161-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 3

Research article

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31 May 2016

Research article |

| 31 May 2016

Characterizing Arctic sea ice topography using high-resolution IceBridge data

Alek A. Petty, Michel C. Tsamados, Nathan T. Kurtz, Sinead L. Farrell, Thomas Newman, Jeremy P. Harbeck, Daniel L. Feltham, and Jackie A. Richter-Menge

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1161-2016-supplement

Data sets

IceBridge topography data from Petty et al., 2016, TC. A. A. Petty, M. C. Tsamados, N. T. Kurtz, S. L. Farrell, T. Newman, J. P. Harbeck, D. L. Feltham, and J. A. Richter-Menge https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.51569

Short summary

This study presents an analysis of Arctic sea ice topography using high-resolution, three-dimensional surface elevation data from the Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) laser altimeter, flown as part of NASA's Operation IceBridge mission. We describe and implement a newly developed sea ice surface feature-picking algorithm and derive novel information regarding the height, volume and geometry of surface features over the western Arctic sea ice cover.