Controls on Eurasian coastal sea ice formation, melt onset and decay from ERS scatterometry: Regional contrasts and effects of river influx

• Published in: International Journal of Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Frey, K. E., Smith, L. C., Alsdorf, D. E.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Clark Digital Commons 2003
• Subjects: sea ice; artificial satellites; ice; oceanography; Eurasia; Geography; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Arctic; Barents Sea; East Siberian Sea; Indigirka; Kolyma; Severnaya Dvina; dvina; Kara-Laptev; khatanga; laptev; North Atlantic; Pechora; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_geography/252; https://doi.org/10.1080/0143116031000101684

Regional and local patterns in the formation, melt onset and disappearance of coastal first-year sea ice (FYI) are observed in the Eurasian Arctic using the C-band (5.3 GHz) European Remote Sensing Satellite (ERS) radar scatterometers. Near-daily time-series (1991-1999) of the radar backscatter coef...