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Articles | Volume 19, issue 3
Articles | Volume 19, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-1135-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-1135-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 19, issue 3
Research article
 | 
11 Mar 2025
Research article |  | 11 Mar 2025

Novel methods to study sea ice deformation, linear kinematic features and coherent dynamic clusters from imaging remote sensing data

Polona Itkin

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Radar satellite images of sea ice were analyzed to understand how sea ice moves and deforms. These data are noisy, especially when looking at small details. A method was developed to filter out the noise. The filtered data were used to monitor how ice plates stretch and compress over time, revealing slow healing of ice fractures. Cohesive clusters of ice plates that move together were studied too. These methods provide climate-relevant insights into the dynamic nature of winter sea ice cover.
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