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Articles | Volume 17, issue 1
Articles | Volume 17, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-279-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-279-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 17, issue 1
Research article
 | 
20 Jan 2023
Research article |  | 20 Jan 2023

Inter-comparison and evaluation of Arctic sea ice type products

Yufang Ye, Yanbing Luo, Yan Sun, Mohammed Shokr, Signe Aaboe, Fanny Girard-Ardhuin, Fengming Hui, Xiao Cheng, and Zhuoqi Chen

Data sets

Sea ice edge and type daily gridded data from 1978 to present derived from satellite observations S. Aaboe, A. Sørensen, S. Eastwood, and T. Lavergne https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.29c46d83

EASE-Grid Sea Ice Age, Version 4 M. Tschudi, , W. N. Meier, J. S. Stewart, C. Fowler, and J. Maslanik https://doi.org/10.5067/UTAV7490FEPB

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Short summary
Arctic sea ice type (SITY) variation is a sensitive indicator of climate change. This study gives a systematic inter-comparison and evaluation of eight SITY products. Main results include differences in SITY products being significant, with average Arctic multiyear ice extent up to 1.8×106 km2; Ku-band scatterometer SITY products generally performing better; and factors such as satellite inputs, classification methods, training datasets and post-processing highly impacting their performance.
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