Multiyear Ice Concentration, Antarctic, 12.5 km grid, cold seasons 2013-2018 (from satellite) ...

• Main Authors: Melsheimer, Christian, Spreen, Gunnar, Ye, Yufang, Shokr, Mohammed
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2019
• Subjects: AMSR2; Antarctic; ASCAT; Multiyear ice; satellite; sea ice concentration; SITAnt; File content; File name; File format; File size; Uniform resource locator/link to file; Multiple investigations; Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas SPP1158; Arctic; Canada; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.909054; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.909054

The corrected multiyear ice (MYI) concentration product from the University of Bremen, Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP), is being retrieved with a two-step algorithm:(1) A constrained optimisation technique that uses different sets of microwave satellite data and the probability distributions of radiometric signatures of different ice types whose concentration (area fraction) is to be retrieved. This is the Environment Canada Ice Concentration Extractor (ECICE) [Shokr et al. 2008, Shokr and Agnew 2013]. The input data used here are microwave radiometer data at 18 and 37 GHz (horizontal and vertical polarisation) from the instrument AMSR2 (Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2) on the JAXA satellite GCOM-W1, as well as microwave scatterometer data from ASCAT on the European satellites MetOp-A and -B.(2) Two correction schemes for the output from ECICE in order to correct for anomalous radiometric and backscatter observations. Such anomalies are caused by snow wetness and metamorphism. This happens ...