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Articles | Volume 14, issue 10
Articles | Volume 14, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3523-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3523-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 14, issue 10
Research article
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26 Oct 2020
Research article |  | 26 Oct 2020

Observations of sea ice melt from Operation IceBridge imagery

Nicholas C. Wright, Chris M. Polashenski, Scott T. McMichael, and Ross A. Beyer

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This work presents a new dataset of sea ice surface fractions along NASA Operation IceBridge flight tracks created by processing hundreds of thousands of aerial images. These results are then analyzed to investigate the behavior of meltwater on first-year ice in comparison to multiyear ice. We find preliminary evidence that first-year ice frequently has a lower melt pond fraction than adjacent multiyear ice, contrary to established knowledge in the sea ice community.
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