Thin ice impacts on surface salt flux and ice strength: Inferences from advanced very high resolution radiometer

• Main Authors: Y. Yu, D. A. Rothrock, J. Zhang
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Beaufort Shelf; Greenland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.454.5670; http://psc.apl.washington.edu/zhang/Pubs/Yu_etal2001.pdf

Abstract. Temperatures and albedos derived from satellite imagery are combined with a thermodynamic ice model to estimate thin ice thickness distributions over the Beaufort and the northern Greenland seas. The study shows that thin ice (thinner than 1 m) occupied over half the area in the seasonal i...