Seasonal evolution of light transmission through Central Arctic sea ice
Light transmission through sea ice has been identified as a critical process for energy partitioning at the polar atmosphere-ice-ocean boundary. Transmission of sunlight influences direct sea ice melting by absorption, heat deposition in the upper ocean, and in particular primary productivity. While...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:46182 2023-05-15T14:22:41+02:00 Seasonal evolution of light transmission through Central Arctic sea ice Katlein, Christian Arndt, Stefanie Belter, Jakob Nicolaus, Marcel 2017-10 application/pdf https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/46182/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/46182/1/Poster_Gordon_ROV_ITP_small.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.42df86c3-f62c-48e2-83c2-698738932317 https://hdl.handle.net/ unknown https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/46182/1/Poster_Gordon_ROV_ITP_small.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/ Katlein, C. orcid:0000-0003-2422-0414 , Arndt, S. orcid:0000-0001-9782-3844 , Belter, J. orcid:0000-0001-9383-911X and Nicolaus, M. orcid:0000-0003-0903-1746 (2017) Seasonal evolution of light transmission through Central Arctic sea ice , Forum for Arctic Modeling and Observation Synthesis (FAMOS), Woodshole, MA, USA, October 2017 - unspecified . hdl:10013/epic.42df86c3-f62c-48e2-83c2-698738932317 EPIC3Forum for Arctic Modeling and Observation Synthesis (FAMOS), Woodshole, MA, USA, 2017-10 Conference notRev 2017 ftawi 2021-12-24T15:43:34Z Light transmission through sea ice has been identified as a critical process for energy partitioning at the polar atmosphere-ice-ocean boundary. Transmission of sunlight influences direct sea ice melting by absorption, heat deposition in the upper ocean, and in particular primary productivity. While earlier observations relied on a limited number of point observations, the recent years have seen an increase in spatially distributed light measurements underneath sea ice using remotely operated vehicles. These measurements allow us to reconstruct the seasonal evolution of the spatial variability in light transmission. Here we present measurements of sea ice light transmittance from 6 years of polar ROV operations. The dataset covers the entire melt cycle of Central Arctic sea ice. This data from multiple years is combined into a pseudo timeseries describing the seasonal evolution of the changing spatial variability of sea ice optical properties. Snow melt in spring increases light transmission continuously, until a secondary mode originating from translucent melt-ponds appears in the histograms of light transmittance. This secondary mode persists long into autumn, before snow fall reduces overall light levels again. Comparison to several autonomous time series measurements from single locations confirms the detected general patterns of the seasonal evolution of light transmittance variability. These results will allow further insights on the validity of radiation transfer parameterization used in ice-ocean models. Conference Object Arctic Arctic Sea ice Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) Arctic |
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Light transmission through sea ice has been identified as a critical process for energy partitioning at the polar atmosphere-ice-ocean boundary. Transmission of sunlight influences direct sea ice melting by absorption, heat deposition in the upper ocean, and in particular primary productivity. While earlier observations relied on a limited number of point observations, the recent years have seen an increase in spatially distributed light measurements underneath sea ice using remotely operated vehicles. These measurements allow us to reconstruct the seasonal evolution of the spatial variability in light transmission. Here we present measurements of sea ice light transmittance from 6 years of polar ROV operations. The dataset covers the entire melt cycle of Central Arctic sea ice. This data from multiple years is combined into a pseudo timeseries describing the seasonal evolution of the changing spatial variability of sea ice optical properties. Snow melt in spring increases light transmission continuously, until a secondary mode originating from translucent melt-ponds appears in the histograms of light transmittance. This secondary mode persists long into autumn, before snow fall reduces overall light levels again. Comparison to several autonomous time series measurements from single locations confirms the detected general patterns of the seasonal evolution of light transmittance variability. These results will allow further insights on the validity of radiation transfer parameterization used in ice-ocean models. |
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Katlein, Christian Arndt, Stefanie Belter, Jakob Nicolaus, Marcel Seasonal evolution of light transmission through Central Arctic sea ice |
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Seasonal evolution of light transmission through Central Arctic sea ice |
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Seasonal evolution of light transmission through Central Arctic sea ice |
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Seasonal evolution of light transmission through Central Arctic sea ice |
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https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/46182/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/46182/1/Poster_Gordon_ROV_ITP_small.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.42df86c3-f62c-48e2-83c2-698738932317 https://hdl.handle.net/ |
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https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/46182/1/Poster_Gordon_ROV_ITP_small.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/ Katlein, C. orcid:0000-0003-2422-0414 , Arndt, S. orcid:0000-0001-9782-3844 , Belter, J. orcid:0000-0001-9383-911X and Nicolaus, M. orcid:0000-0003-0903-1746 (2017) Seasonal evolution of light transmission through Central Arctic sea ice , Forum for Arctic Modeling and Observation Synthesis (FAMOS), Woodshole, MA, USA, October 2017 - unspecified . hdl:10013/epic.42df86c3-f62c-48e2-83c2-698738932317 |
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