A scatterometer record of sea ice extents and backscatter: 1992–2016

Belmonte Rivas, Maria; Otosaka, Ines; Stoffelen, Ad; Verhoef, Anton

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2941-2018

Articles | Volume 12, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2941-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2941-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 9

Research article

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14 Sep 2018

Research article |

| 14 Sep 2018

A scatterometer record of sea ice extents and backscatter: 1992–2016

Maria Belmonte Rivas, Ines Otosaka, Ad Stoffelen, and Anton Verhoef

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SC1: 'Classification of ice types using contemporaneous C-band, Ku-band Scatterometer and Passive Microwave Data', Mark Drinkwater, 11 Apr 2018
- SC2: 'Reply to Dr. Drinkwater', Ines Otosaka, 16 Apr 2018
RC1: 'Comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 05 May 2018
RC2: 'Review of "tc-2018-68" by', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 Jun 2018
AC1: 'Replies to referees', M. Belmonte Rivas, 17 Jul 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by M. Belmonte Rivas on behalf of the Authors (17 Jul 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (22 Jul 2018) by Christian Haas

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (25 Jul 2018)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (13 Aug 2018)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (21 Aug 2018) by Christian Haas

AR by M. Belmonte Rivas on behalf of the Authors (23 Aug 2018) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

We provide a novel record of scatterometer sea ice extents and backscatter that complements the passive microwave products nicely, particularly for the correction of summer melt errors. The sea ice backscatter maps help differentiate between seasonal and perennial Arctic ice classes, and between second-year and older multiyear ice, revealing the emergence of SY ice as the dominant perennial ice type after the record loss in 2007 and attesting to its use as a proxy for ice thickness.