Observations of Sea Ice Melt from Operation IceBridge Imagery

• Main Authors: Wright, Nicholas C., Polashenski, Chris M., McMichael, Scott T., Beyer, Ross A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Arctic; Pleiades; albedo; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2019-288; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2019-288/

The summer albedo of Arctic sea ice is heavily dependent on the fraction and color of melt ponds that form on the ice surface. This work presents a new dataset of sea ice surface fractions along Operation IceBridge (OIB) flight tracks derived from the Digital Mapping System optical imagery set. This...