Towards a swath-to-swath sea-ice drift product for the Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer mission

Lavergne, Thomas; Piñol Solé, Montserrat; Down, Emily; Donlon, Craig

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-3681-2021

Articles | Volume 15, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-3681-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-3681-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 8

Research article

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06 Aug 2021

Research article |

| 06 Aug 2021

Towards a swath-to-swath sea-ice drift product for the Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer mission

Thomas Lavergne, Montserrat Piñol Solé, Emily Down, and Craig Donlon

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Final revised paper (published on 06 Aug 2021)
Preprint (discussion started on 16 Nov 2020)

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

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 10 Dec 2020
- AC2: 'Reply on RC1', Thomas Lavergne, 10 Feb 2021
AC1: 'Adding 4 DOIs to the data availability section.', Thomas Lavergne, 19 Dec 2020
RC2: 'Review of “Towards a swath-to-swath sea-ice drift product for the CIMR mission” by Lavergne et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 21 Dec 2020
- AC3: 'Reply on RC2', Thomas Lavergne, 10 Feb 2021

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

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (11 Feb 2021) by Stephen Howell

AR by Thomas Lavergne on behalf of the Authors (16 May 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (25 May 2021) by Stephen Howell

AR by Thomas Lavergne on behalf of the Authors (03 Jun 2021)

Short summary

Pushed by winds and ocean currents, polar sea ice is on the move. We use passive microwave satellites to observe this motion. The images from their orbits are often put together into daily images before motion is measured. In our study, we measure motion from the individual orbits directly and not from the daily images. We obtain many more motion vectors, and they are more accurate. This can be used for current and future satellites, e.g. the Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR).