Grounded ridge detection and characterization along the Alaska Arctic coastline using ICESat-2 surface height retrievals

Lange, Kennedy A.; Bradley, Alice C.; Duncan, Kyle; Farrell, Sinéad L.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-2045-2025

Articles | Volume 19, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-2045-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-2045-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 6

Research article

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11 Jun 2025

Research article |

| 11 Jun 2025

Grounded ridge detection and characterization along the Alaska Arctic coastline using ICESat-2 surface height retrievals

Kennedy A. Lange, Alice C. Bradley, Kyle Duncan, and Sinéad L. Farrell

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-2045-2025-supplement

Data sets

ICESat-2 Sea Ice Surface Topography from the University of Maryland-Ridge Detection Algorithm: Coastal Alaska (Version 1) Kyle Duncan and Sinéad L. Farrell https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12188017

ATLAS/ICESat-2 L2A Global Geolocated Photon Data (ATL03, Version 6) T. A. Neumann et al. https://doi.org/10.5067/ATLAS/ATL03.006

Model code and software

bradley-alice/LangeCoastalRidging: March 2025 coastal ridging code (LangeCoastalRidging_v1) A. Bradley and K. Lange https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15014586

Short summary

Grounded sea ice ridges stabilize nearshore sea ice by anchoring it in the seafloor. In this...