Articles | Volume 15, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-2819-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-2819-2021
Research article
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22 Jun 2021
Research article |  | 22 Jun 2021

Implications of surface flooding on airborne estimates of snow depth on sea ice

Anja Rösel, Sinead Louise Farrell, Vishnu Nandan, Jaqueline Richter-Menge, Gunnar Spreen, Dmitry V. Divine, Adam Steer, Jean-Charles Gallet, and Sebastian Gerland

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ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (02 Feb 2021) by Ludovic Brucker
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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (30 Mar 2021) by Ludovic Brucker
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Short summary
Recent observations in the Arctic suggest a significant shift towards a snow–ice regime caused by deep snow on thin sea ice which may result in a flooding of the snowpack. These conditions cause the brine wicking and saturation of the basal snow layers which lead to a subsequent underestimation of snow depth from snow radar mesurements. As a consequence the calculated sea ice thickness will be biased towards higher values.