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Articles | Volume 14, issue 6
Articles | Volume 14, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1971-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1971-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 14, issue 6
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18 Jun 2020
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Changes of the Arctic marginal ice zone during the satellite era

Rebecca J. Rolph, Daniel L. Feltham, and David Schröder

Data sets

Studies of Antarctic sea ice concentrations from satellite data and their applications J. C. Comiso and K. Steffen https://doi.org/10.1029/2001jc000823

Bootstrap Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS J. C. Comiso https://doi.org/10.5067/7Q8HCCWS4I0R

Sea ice concentration data produced from a simulation with the sea ice model CICE-CPOM-2019, including a prognostic floe size distribution model to study the Marginal Ice Zone R. Rolph, D. Feltham, and D. Schroeder https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.253

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It is well known that the Arctic sea ice extent is declining, and it is often assumed that the marginal ice zone (MIZ), the area of partial sea ice cover, is consequently increasing. However, we find no trend in the MIZ extent during the last 40 years from observations that is consistent with a widening of the MIZ as it moves northward. Differences of MIZ extent between different satellite retrievals are too large to provide a robust basis to verify model simulations of MIZ extent.
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