Articles | Volume 10, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1161-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1161-2016
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

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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.
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