Key Environmental Monitoring for Polar Latitudes and European Readiness (KEPLER) - ICE-MOD on MOSAIC expedition (MOSAIC)

• Main Author: Gabarró, Carolina
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: CSIC - Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM) 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Climate change; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/203834

Jornada de presentación de proyectos iniciados el 2018-19. Challenge #1: Understanding Ocean and Climate Interactions KEPLER is a multi-partner initiative, built around the operational European Ice Services and Copernicus information providers, to prepare a roadmap for Copernicus to deliver an improved European capacity for monitoring and forecasting the Polar Regions. Our motivation is to put the public and stakeholders at the centre of Copernicus. The stakeholders include the end-users in the form of European citizens living and working in, or having interests in, the Polar Regions, and intermediate users adding value to Copernicus products, but also the Copernicus services and providers , and the European Commission itself. These cover a range of users that can be classified as European institutions, national agencies, research, and industry groups for example shipping, fisheries, energy production, and tourism. Our Workpackage is to identify the reserach and capacity gaps of the remote sensing data of the poles. ICE-MOD. The information provided by remote sensing platforms on sea ice thickness and snow depth is crucial to understand the changes that the Arctic is facing under the threat of climate change, and in particular to study the evolution of sea ice mass and sea ice balance. During the MOSAIC expedition (https://mosaic-expedition.org/) an L-band radiometers called ARIEL, will be deployed and will perform measurements during the whole year-round. Moreover, many routinely in situ acquisitions will be performed under the regular MOSAIC acquisition plan as measuremements of ice and snow thickness, temperature and salinity of the ice and snow, density profiles, permittivity of the sea ice. All these measurements will allow us to improve the emissivity and dielectric constant models for sea ice and snow and improve the accuracy of the sea ice thickness measurements from the SMOS satellite