Spring melt pond fraction in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago predicted from RADARSAT-2

Howell, Stephen E. L.; Scharien, Randall K.; Landy, Jack; Brady, Mike

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4675-2020

Articles | Volume 14, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4675-2020

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4675-2020

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

Articles | Volume 14, issue 12

Research article

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21 Dec 2020

Research article |

| 21 Dec 2020

Spring melt pond fraction in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago predicted from RADARSAT-2

Stephen E. L. Howell, Randall K. Scharien, Jack Landy, and Mike Brady

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Final revised paper (published on 21 Dec 2020)
Preprint (discussion started on 02 Jul 2020)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of tc-2020-171', Anonymous Referee #1, 10 Aug 2020
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer #1', Stephen Howell, 05 Sep 2020
RC2: 'Review Howell et al., 2020, TCD', Anonymous Referee #2, 20 Aug 2020
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer #2', Stephen Howell, 05 Sep 2020
RC3: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #3, 06 Oct 2020
- AC3: 'Response to Reviewer #3', Stephen Howell, 07 Oct 2020

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

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (26 Oct 2020) by Ludovic Brucker

AR by Stephen Howell on behalf of the Authors (26 Oct 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (13 Nov 2020) by Ludovic Brucker

AR by Stephen Howell on behalf of the Authors (13 Nov 2020)

Short summary

Melt ponds form on the surface of Arctic sea ice during spring and have been shown to exert a strong influence on summer sea ice area. Here, we use RADARSAT-2 satellite imagery to estimate the predicted peak spring melt pond fraction in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago from 2009–2018. Our results show that RADARSAT-2 estimates of peak melt pond fraction can be used to provide predictive information about summer sea ice area within certain regions of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.