A long-term proxy for sea ice thickness in the Canadian Arctic: 1996–2020

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Glissenaar, Isolde A., Landy, Jack C., Babb, David G., Dawson, Geoffrey J., Howell, Stephen E. L.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Arctic; Baffin Bay; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Northwest Passage; Parry; Arctic Archipelago; Baffin; Beaufort Sea; Northwest passage; Parry Channel; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3269-2023; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/17/3269/2023/

This study presents a long-term winter sea ice thickness proxy product for the Canadian Arctic based on a random forest regression model – applied to ice charts and scatterometer data, trained on CryoSat-2 observations, and applying an ice type–sea ice thickness correction using the Pan-Arctic Ice O...