Broadband albedo of Arctic sea ice from MERIS optical data

Pohl, Christine; Istomina, Larysa; Tietsche, Steffen; Jäkel, Evelyn; Stapf, Johannes; Spreen, Gunnar; Heygster, Georg

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-165-2020

Articles | Volume 14, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-165-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-165-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 1

Research article

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22 Jan 2020

Research article |

| 22 Jan 2020

Broadband albedo of Arctic sea ice from MERIS optical data

Christine Pohl, Larysa Istomina, Steffen Tietsche, Evelyn Jäkel, Johannes Stapf, Gunnar Spreen, and Georg Heygster

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RC1: 'Review of ”Broadband albedo of Arctic sea ice from MERIS optical data”', Anonymous Referee #1, 10 Jun 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to Referee 1', Christine Pohl, 02 Sep 2019
RC2: 'Broadband albedo of Arctic sea ice from MERIS optical data', Anonymous Referee #2, 11 Jul 2019
- AC2: 'Reply to Referee 2', Christine Pohl, 02 Sep 2019

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

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (10 Sep 2019) by Dirk Notz

AR by Christine Pohl on behalf of the Authors (16 Sep 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (30 Sep 2019) by Dirk Notz

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (11 Oct 2019)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (12 Oct 2019)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (23 Oct 2019) by Dirk Notz

AR by Christine Pohl on behalf of the Authors (14 Nov 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (02 Dec 2019) by Dirk Notz

AR by Christine Pohl on behalf of the Authors (02 Dec 2019) Manuscript

Short summary

A spectral to broadband conversion is developed empirically that can be used in combination with the Melt Pond Detector algorithm to derive broadband albedo (300–3000 nm) of Arctic sea ice from MERIS data. It is validated and shows better performance compared to existing conversion methods. A comparison of MERIS broadband albedo with respective values from ERA5 reanalysis suggests a revision of the albedo values used in ERA5. MERIS albedo might be useful for improving albedo representation.