Articles | Volume 15, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-3681-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-3681-2021
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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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).