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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2073-2018
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2073-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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15 Jun 2018
Research article |
| 15 Jun 2018
| 15 Jun 2018
A new tracking algorithm for sea ice age distribution estimation
Anton Andreevich Korosov
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Thormohlensgate 47,
Bergen, 5009, Norway
Pierre Rampal
Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Thormohlensgate 47,
Bergen, 5009, Norway
Leif Toudal Pedersen
Institute for Space Research and Technology,
Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Roberto Saldo
Institute for Space Research and Technology,
Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Yufang Ye
Department of
Space, Earth and Environment, Microwave and Optical Remote Sensing, Chalmers
University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Georg Heygster
Institute of
Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Thomas Lavergne
Department of Remote Sensing And Data Management, Norwegian
Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Signe Aaboe
Department of Remote
Sensing And Data Management, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Tromsø,
Norway
Fanny Girard-Ardhuin
Ifremer, Univ. Brest, CNRS, IRD, Laboratoire
d'Oceanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), IUEM, 29280, Brest, France
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Short summary
A new algorithm for estimating sea ice age in the Arctic is presented. The algorithm accounts for motion, deformation, melting and freezing of sea ice and uses daily sea ice drift and sea ice concentration products. The major advantage of the new algorithm is the ability to generate individual ice age fractions in each pixel or, in other words, to provide a frequency distribution of the ice age. Multi-year ice concentration can be computed as a sum of all ice fractions older than 1 year.
A new algorithm for estimating sea ice age in the Arctic is presented. The algorithm accounts...
